2008 R2 - Group Policy Management Installation Hangs/crashes System

[ndwarner]

Hi all,

 

I'm new to these forums and to Server 2008 R2. Currently, I'm attempting to add a brand new 2008 R2 server to an existing 2003 domain as a domain controller. I've followed the steps to make this happen, and everything runs smoothly until I get to dcpromo. Here is what happens:

 

I start dcpromo and am able to go through all the steps and click "Install". DNS installs fine. However, when I get to "Installing Group Policy Management Console", it not only hangs the installation indefinitely, but the system becomes either partly or completely frozen. I can't kill the process with Task Manager because TM will not load. No errors occur, and my only recourse is to hard reboot the system.

 

I decided to take it one step further and try to install GPMC manually, to see if that was the issue. Sure enough, when I do this, the installation hangs about 3/4 of the way through and the system exhibits the same partly/completely locked behavior.

 

My conclusion, therefore, is that something is wrong with the GPMC installer on my system, but I have no idea what. I consider myself something of a pro at tracking down solutions via Google, but I've been able to find nothing on this topic whatsoever. The closest I found was someone who couldn't install GPMC on XP, and it turned out that they needed to install another version of .NET.

 

Have you experienced this or do you have any ideas about how to fix it?

 

Thanks so much for your time. Feel free to ask me questions if anything is unclear.

 

-N