I have a script that will perform a metadata cleanup for one DC in a domain. It was designed for small enviroments, so it does not work on child domains at this point in time. All it does is asks you for the name of the DC. If you want it, just ask.
Clay Perrine, MCSE Microsoft Directory Services Support Team -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remotely Boot into DS Restore Mode? Just did this not quite a year ago. 1. Restore root DC that holds roles. 2. Restore child domain DC that holds roles. 3. Use ntdsutil to remove DCs that are not restored. This is a MAJOR pain in the posterior. The guy that wrote ntdsutil MUST have been a COBOL programmer. Failure to remove DCs will result in LOTS of problems. Anybody know how to script this? In a rebuild from ground situation, I do not believe you need DS restore mode. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remotely Boot into DS Restore Mode? Speaking of DS Restore, We are preparing to go through disaster recovery practice offsite. We currently have an AD domain with a boatload of sites and a boatload of DCs. We have an empty forest root, and we all live in our child domain. We're supposed to come up with documentation to restore our site in case of disaster. Our domain controller #1 is holding the FSMO roles for our domain and our root domain controller #1 in our empty forest root is holding the FSMO roles for our empty forest root. I found some documentation on technet about restoring system state, etc in DS restore mode. We've never (fortunately, knock on wood) had to go through this process. Is the technet documentation sufficient, are there any gotchas, or any good reading material anyone can direct me to, to help make this rebuild smooth? We're not going to have internet access at the offsite facility initially so we're going to be relying on tape backups. We're going to get there with servers installed with a base win2000 OS loaded and all of our tapes in hand. Any pointers is appreciated. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Adner Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Remotely Boot into DS Restore Mode? Of course. Should have thought of it myself. I'd still prefer to be able to do these tasks without a reboot (like an unload of AD function or something like that), but this will have to do. :) >Use /SAFEBOOT:DSREPAIR /SOS switches in boot.ini: >http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=256588 > >Guy > >On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 03:26, David Adner wrote: > > Without using a lights-out type adapter or something else that will allow > > me to remotely view the bootup process, is there a way to reboot a server > > and have it automatically enter DS Restore Mode? > > > > TIA > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ >-- > >List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm >List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm >List archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ -- David List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
