On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I have done it this way. I took a clone of one of my DCs (it's a VM), set it on an ESXi server and configured it to use a specific vswitch, *not* configured to have any NICs assigned to it (so it was a private network, and completely isolated from the other vswitches). Be certain of that part .. Then, on that cloned VM, I seized roles, deleted the other, missing DCs, changed it's IP to be one on that private vswitch, created a "management" PC to talk to it. It did work. I posted here about it, years ago. It was a lot of work. But yes, it does give you a replica of your current config (all same OUs, sites, etc).
