For system state to work correctly, you need to have identical hardware on the lab machine as to the machine the system state was taken on. Different hardware will definately create difficulty in restoring the system state and possibly fail.
So imo, promoting a dc in the domain, forcing replication with a local dc, then cutting off the wire to the domain, running metadata cleanup against each other on both ends seems like a better and cleaner idea. Don't forget to clean out ADSS, ADUC, and DNS on both ends as well. On 3/11/06, Peter Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > I was wondering, after finally got management buy in to build a lab, what > the easist way is to get my domain info migrated into the lab for the > purposes of testing dev etc? > > Do I simply Dcpromo a new box and then cut it off from the domain and > NTDSUTIL it out or do I do a state recoverey from my Tivoli backups? > > Anyone got any ideas/pointers etc. > > Thanks & greetings from a chill server room in Johannesburg South Africa. > > > Peter Johnson -- "Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." ~ Elvis Presley 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/
