Exactly, I do it for DR purposes, the old one dies - I reimage it and put it back out there. No poblem... jlc
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Renouf Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] best practice? On 5/4/05, John Shukovsky Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BUT....as for DC's. I do "image" dc's using Symantec Livestate > Recovery ( formerly PowerQuest V2i ). It works wonderfully. I > primarily use for backups. I have not had to recover a server in > production ( and hope I do not have to ) but I have in lab 10+ times and servers are as clean as ever. > You should take a look. When Brett mentioned imaging DCs being a bad idea and to never ever do it I believe that he was meaning don't Image a DC and try to use that Image to build other new DCs and just trying to change the SID like you would for a desktop. Bad idea! Phil List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
