my steps are as follows- i have a laptop with AD on it on site. I plan on taking the laptop to the recovery site and forcing a transfer of FSMO roles(as this is something i don't want to gracefully do here and botch my network. Then i plan on installing another win 2k server and running dcpromo on it. This server will have the same name as my dc back on site. I don't need to restore the system state as the dc back on site is only a dc and has some home dirs on it. i will only restore the home dirs. My question was, will AD complain about bring up a server with the same name? should I delete this server from the domain controllers OU or run ntdsutil and expunge any entry in AD for this server? This server back on site held all three fsmo roles for the domain.
Finally, and i know this is off topic and i apologize but i haven't gotten any response from the exchange-admin list server, but does anyone know of any good documentation on restoring an active/passive exchange 2k clustered server to a non clustered box. Is it just deleting the virtual server object with adsiedit and then doing a fresh install of exchange(making sure the server has the same name as the virtual server and the legacy dn of the admin group is identical) and just restore the info store? Thanks and sorry for being so damn wordy. -----Original Message----- From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD disaster recovery I would guess that you'll still have to remove the previuosly existing DC's regardless but it's hard to tell what steps you're planning exactly. al -----Original Message----- From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:51 AM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject: [ActiveDir] AD disaster recovery We're doing a DR test run of AD. We go to another location and try to restore our network from tape backup(Veritas 8.6). Each time we've run into serious issues when restoring AD to different hardware(this is all our DR site provides) and have never been able to get up and running. So this time, I want to put AD on a laptop, give it a few days to replicate with our network, then take the laptop with me to the DR site, force a transfer of all the FSMO roles, and restore that way. Also, for the other DC's, I just want to set up new domain controllers with the same names and not restore the system state, i,e; AD. Just app specfic stuff and home directories. Does anyone see a problem with this? Will I run into issues with GUID's not matching or USN's? We are also planning on restoring an Exchange 2k server. Any help or advice, war stories, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks 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/
