Top level domain now full 2003

The final DC in the top level domain was upgraded today which was pretty painless as this top level is simply in place for adding subdomains to if we require them in the future.

One little fun surprise was this error:

apphelp dialog cancelled thus preventing the application from
starting.

This popped up after we tried to do some uninstallation of bits we no longer needed, in this case the Windows 2000 administrative tools. Apparently this little gem comes up if you install 2003 over the top without uninstalling the tools first, thankfully installing the 2003 admin tools disposed of the 2000 tools in the process.

The second little beauty was the following error from the event viewer having installed 2003 SP1 we got this error in the system log:

Event ID 7022: The Kerberos Key Distribution Center service hung on starting

This was a little worrying to start with and the only mention in the knowledgebase did nothing to calm our fears
some more probing on the net and it appears that I am not the only one. This error is one of those 'I am not ready' when starting errors that so often happen these days. I remember IIS and Exchange being famous for these. Basically whats happening is a check is being done too early in the startup and as a result is failing which means we get an error. Waiting another few seconds and the service does start and all is fine just a process getting a little ahead of itself.

No fix at present so just ignore that huge red error in your event viewer OK, its normal.