On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:24 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I can't say for sure what caused it, but somewhere during this process >> about 10 out of the 70+/- GPOs got fubared, and I had to recover them >> - something I've never had to do before. Thank all the gods (and >> decent planning!) that I had snapshot backups of the DC holding all of >> the FSMO roles, and could mount the VMDK and pull out the sysvol >> directory and copy them back from the Friday night backup. > > Really. I have a scheduled task that backs up all GPOs to a central > share on the last day of the month. I always assumed that if I needed > to, I could import a GPO from there, if I needed to restore some > settings.That seems easier than having to mount a copy of the sysvol > and copy them out of that.
Yes, there was a lesson in there for me, and I've learned it. Kurt
