You shouldn't use VM DR techniques to restore a DC, that's what it comes down to. You can search at support.microsoft.com for a KB that discusses "USN Rollback" for the technical details why not to do that.
There is also a white-paper at Microsoft.com/downloads named something like "Best Practices for Running Domain Controllers in a Virtualization Environment". Sorry I didn't do the searches. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: My First 2008 Server I thought I had heard somewhere that it wasn't a best practice to run a DC in a VM. I had tried to get confirmation on that a while back, but didn't have much luck. I don't see why running a DC in a Hyper-V VM would be a problem, though-I never really got a good answer on that. John From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: My First 2008 Server So far that is all I have done. I had mine come in back in May but was told to leave it off until 3rd week of June. I will be doing my DC in Hyper-V which is very nice. Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:52 AM, John Hornbuckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Woohoo! My new server arrived yesterday, and it'll be my first 2008 server in a domain/forest that currently has all 2003 machines. I'll need to make it a DC, so I want to make sure I don't miss anything. Looking at a couple of TechNet articles, it looks like I need to run "adprep /forestprep" on the schema operations master and "adprep /domainprep /gpprep" on the infrastructure operations master server. Is that all? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us <http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us/> ~ 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> ~
