Re: In big trouble - AD restore, Runned out of options.

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Do you have a backup of your W2K DC? If so how old is it?


"yikes!" <nothere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My w2k PDC just died, totally crashed and burned which hosts my AD. Only
> have a BDC NT4 box (needed for unix server to do NTLM with domain), got
no
> other BDC w2k boxes and my system state backup happens to be corrupted on
> the media its on. (Murphy working its magic again).
>
> So in theory Im dead! and probably will have to build another AD, using
the
> NT4 BDC which has the basic user account information to upgrade to a new
w2k
> domain
>
> Then switch over all computers to new domain, and some how get access to
the
> mailboxes/PF's on the exchange server? I have all the mailboxes/folders
on
> backup (medias still good) so can probably redirect restore to another
> exchange server, since I dont think I can easily reclaim the exchange
server
> due to different domain security ID's for all the objects.
>
> Im on the right track, anyone got a miracle solution?
>
>
>


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