It can be dangerous. But it's really the only way to get a "real replica".
Don't make mistakes with your network. :) Lots of people consider me old-fashioned, but I strongly recommend you whiteboard/blackboard/whatever, but diagram your test environment and try to find all of the places where leakage could occur and remediate them FIRST. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 5:32 PM To: 'NT System Admin Issues Discussion list' Subject: [NTSysADM] Building a test domain For a quick build of a test domain, completely separate from a production domain, would you take a vReplica of the production domain controller, then revive that in the test area? Sounds great, but I have huge trepidation about it. Joe Heaton Information Technology Operations Branch Data and Technology Division CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1700 9th Street, 3rd Floor Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: 916-323-1284
