Imaging workstation is a PITA, you can slap a new image down, but if you don't have good Image management, then you are going to get that ugly variance.
My question is why image a downed DC? Its down for a reason, either hardware failure or not, it is far easier to just unpromote it, do the metadata cleanup from AD and rebuild and repromote. You don't want to reintroduce an old DC back on to the network, which could have an outdated version of AD DIT, the same SID/Guids possibly as another DC's if you was using Ghost as a way to build the existing base server in the first place, which could cause problems. I don't do Ghost Images or Acronis images for servers period, use good change management rules and make sure backups work as required and restore when needed. I think I have had to fully restore 3 servers in 9 years of Sys admining. Upgrading memory is a 5 minute thing on most HP servers, pulling drives and putting in another machine, I got extra RAID adapters on site, along with extra hard drives and everything has hardware raid so its as easy and slapping in a new drive and letting it rebuild accordingly. Motherboard goes, I got a 4 hr response from my hardware VAR to bring me a new server and we take stuff out of old server put in the new and start rocking again, the hardware will be same make model, as the old system. Again mileage will vary, everyones situation is different. Workstations is one thing users are always messing them up, servers which affects 100's if not thousands of users is another thing, and users don't have access to them so they cant mess them up. Z -----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 2003 DC system partition too small Imaging workstations is a PITA only if you do it wrong. I can understand problems imaging live DCs, but what's the concern with imaging a downed DC? How is the downtime to create a Ghost or Acronis image any different from rebooting it, or powering it off to upgrade the memory, or pulling the drives and putting them in a different machine? Ziots, Edward wrote: > Ghosts and servers for me never mixed. > > I seen too much ugliness with images on workstations, over my time in > sysadmin land, why I never subscribed to it in server administration. > > Plus duplicate sids, Guids, etc etc you could really mess up AD > replication this way. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
