RE: [ActiveDir] forest disaster recovery plan.

[Grillenmeier, Guido]

Microsoft is working on an updated Forest Recovery guide for Windows Server 2003, however, the basic procedures for full forest recovery are still the same as you’d have to do for a Windows 2000 AD forest.  And for the later a guide already exists: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3EDA5A79-C99B-4DF9-823C-933FEBA08CFE   Naturally, Win2003 offers new features such as Install from Media to speed up promotion of DCs, but the general gist of a full recovery of a multi-domain AD forest remains as complex as described in the Microsoft document just referenced above.   Realize that there are different aspects to AD recovery and Forest Disaster Recovery is obviously for that very rare and unlikely occasion (that you still need to be prepared for).  To get a good overview about the other challenges involved in AD recovery (especially in a multi domain forest), you should have a look at the following whitepapers:   ·         A Definite Guide to Active Directory Disaster Recovery (from NetPro & HP) http://www.netpro.com/media/pdf/NetPro_ADDR_Guide.pdf   ·         11 Things to Know about Active Directory Recovery (from Quest & HP) http://www.quest.com/documents/list.aspx?searchoff=true&contenttypeid=1&prodfamily=13   /Guido   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yann Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:02 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] forest disaster recovery plan.   Hello all,   I have to write a forest disaster reocvery plan fonr my entrerprise, and also test this plan in a test lab. We have AD 2k3 forest in FFL mode with: -> one "empty" root : no resources, only for security reason (to secure Entreprise & Ad domain admin). -> 3 childs domain. -> each DCs have AD integrated dns zone. -> Wins are also part of the infrastructure. -> 20 AD sites.   I don't know where i have to start. Is there a roadmap or a step-by-step guide that describes the different strategies of a good recovery ? And if experts in this list have good advices, they are welcome :)   Thank you very muche,   Yann   Découvrez un nouveau moyen de poser toutes vos questions quelque soit le sujet ! Yahoo! Questions/Réponses pour partager vos connaissances, vos opinions et vos expériences. Cliquez ici.