I was having the DHCP server fail to see active directory with error number 1059, where I was unable to authorize the DHCP server for IP address leasing. I have parent – child domain environment where I was trying to deploy DHCP server in the child domain.
There are plenty of forums out there concentrating on networking side, but I was installing the DHCP server on the child domain DC. Therefore, there should not be any networking and firewall issues. I even tried DCDIAG.exe and LDP.exe with pass as the end result.
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