How do I login once I promote my Windows Server 2012 to domain controller in my Amazon VPC?

Question

I am following this guide: http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/pdf/EC2_AD_How_to.pdf to setup my domain controller. I get AD installed correctly, but when I do the promotion to DC, the server restarts and when I try to access it, I am unable to login using any of the local system accounts.

I even created my own separate user account, but that did not help. I made sure to disable the amazon settings for renaming the machine, the machine has a static ip and has been renamed.

Solution

The local Administrator account becomes the domain Administrator account when you create a new domain. Also, when you install Active Directory, it removes any local accounts

You should be able to login with your administrator account using the <accountname>@domain.com or DOMAIN\<accountname forms.

See also: Local user accounts have disappeared after installing Active Directory and running dcpromo

Comments

[Developr]

In all the guides I referred to, none of them mentioned it. Thanks!