I have a lab configured with a single domain controller and one client server. Both servers are Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and the functional level of the domain is Windows Server 2008 R2. After I promoted the domain controller, I did not make any changes to the default domain policy GPO. My problem is this: I created a Managed Service Account and a regular user account and tried to use both of these accounts as logon accounts for the "Disk Defragmenter" service on my client server and domain controller. Each time it failed with the following error:
In the system event log:
I also tried moving the client server into a custom OU and blocked inheritance of all parent GPOs, but this did not work either...same error.
I'm assuming the problem lies with the Default Domain group policy and Default Domain Controllers group policy, I'm just not sure which setting. I'm at a complete loss, so any help is greatly appreciated.
jason
UPDATE: after further testing, I am receiving the same errors even when the server is not joined to a domain. After a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2, I created a local user and used that account as the logon account for several services. When I started the services, I received the same error.