I'm thinking out loud here, why not clone/sysprep the server as stand alone machine then join the root domain and then DCPROMO? Those steps can be automated and are from my perspective very easy to do. If you sending DCs to a remote location then use dcpromo with install from media....
Francis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: August 17, 2005 5:03 PM To: activedirectory Subject: [ActiveDir] cloning DC's I know i read this thread before but i can't seem to find it. we are creating a new forest root and the IBM consultants here created the first root dc and now they want to clone it using Disk Image and sysprep to create the other DC's in the root. I think i heard this is a bad idea. Am I right? I can't seem to find any article on this but I do remember this being spoken of on the list and I don't remeber what the conculsion was. thanks 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/
