I am going through this today. We have pulled a tape drive into our test lab and will build the clone from restores. Another way is to add a DC to your production domain. Take it offline and to your lab. Run NTDSUtil and force it to hold your FSMO roles, but you will have to clean it's residue from your production domain. NTDSUtil will clean the AD portion and you should manually delete the DNS, WINS records.
-----Original Message----- From: Huntley, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 8:26 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cloning Domain Sorry I have been away for a few days and was unable to follow this thread, I should have mentioned that I want to be able to clone a W2K Domain. I don't recall any way AD will let you rename your Domain? Thanks for all the feed back to date. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Ayers, Diane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cloning Domain Exchange was a bit different. We wanted a clone (to a point) of our Exchange 5.5 stuff in the lab to nail down the Exchange 2000 upgrade. Our Ex5.5 is (was) in a dedicated "exchange" NT 4.0 resource domain. We cloned the domain in the lab and for the exchange piece we had to create the exchange users from scratch. We built the org and sites with the same names. For the objects in the Exchange directory, we did an export of the production directory, tweaked it a bit such as primary NT account (change the domain name) and home server and imported it into the lab exchange setup. All the mailboxes and public folders were empty but that was OK. Other bits and pieces we built manually such as connectors, etc. It really helped nail down some migrate points before we did it "for keeps" in our production setup. Diane -----Original Message----- From: Hayes, Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cloning Domain How did you clone Exchange servers while changing the NetBIOS name of your cloned domain? What happen to the primary accounts associated with the mailboxes? Was an Exchange migration part of your plan? Just curious... -----Original Message----- From: Ayers, Diane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:23 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cloning Domain Good point. That is critical. The NetBIOS names of the domain was changed. It was an NT 4.0 clone that was used to test and verify our Win2K upgrade to AD. A DC was yank off, isolated, made a PDC and the domain renamed. A complete separate DNS, WINS infrastructure was built to support the test environment that was isolated from the production DNS/WINS. Joe or Jane user can't get to it even though it's on our WAN. Diane -----Original Message----- From: Hayes, Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cloning Domain OK, so you are saying you changed the Netbios name of the domain for the cloned domain? What type of domain is this NT or 2K? Without changing the NETBIOS domain name for the cloned domain you will need to be in an isolated environment. -----Original Message----- From: Ayers, Diane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:57 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cloning Domain Actually you can have it on the same wire. We have our lab that is a clone of the production domain on our net with the production domain. The key point is that you have to keep your namespaces separate and unique (NetBIOS, DNS and WINS) Diane -----Original Message----- From: Hayes, Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cloning Domain That is it exactly. Move it to your lab and promote it to a PDC. DO NOT RECONNECT IT TO THE SAME WIRING PLANT AS YOUR PRODUCTION DOMAIN ONCE YOU MOVE IT AND PROMOTE IT. I assume you are talking about NT4??... Shawn Hayes -----Original Message----- From: Huntley, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:20 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Cloning Domain I would like to be able to clone our Domain I know that there was a discussion about this sometime ago but can not find the thread. We about ready to rebuild our test lab to match production and I am looking for the easiest way to do so. I believe the thread I am talking about talks about building a DC in production then moving to the test lab. Any information would be helpful. 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