You'll be fine. Unless you've tinkered with the tombstone lifetime, even on Windows 2000 built domains you've got a 60 day TSL.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 2008 DC being offline Hello, A 2008 DC (lets call it Server-F) we have at another site has been offline for 6 weeks. We powered it down because the building was undergoing construction, and the building was effectively CLOSED for those 6 weeks. Construction is done and I'm ready to bring the server back online. Is there a problem with just turning Server-F on and letting it re-sync with active directory even though its been offline for 6 weeks? or... would I be better off bringing Server-F up WITHOUT a network cable connected, run dcpromo /forceremoval on it... then remove any references to the Server-F from my other DCs, and eventually re-promote server F back as a DC? Thoughts? -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft(r) Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
