Re: Active Directory recovery solution

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Don't forget about the backups; adding a second DC will help you only if one
DC will fail, but what are you going to do if somebody will delete some
objects from the directory ? (you'll need a valid backup then)

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"aznan" <aznan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, checked out the NTDSUTIL and it's great ..thanks for the advise
appreciate it very much guys.


The International School of Penang (Uplands)


"vemula4u@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

On Feb 23, 12:30 pm, aznan <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi thanks for the advise, i've just promoted one of my Server 2000 as
the
secondary DC and every entries (users and computers) are perfectly
there but W

What should i do if my Primary DC fails now ? Any steps or command to
Promote my Secondary DC to become a Primary DC ?

The International School of Penang (Uplands)



"Enkidu" wrote:
aznan wrote:

Hi, i'm running Windows 2000 server with AD domain environment.
Currently i have only one domain controller but can anyone advise
me
of a way for me to setup a disaster recovery solution if my DC
crashed ?

The easiest and simplest disaster recovery solution is to add a
second
DC. Anything else is a waste of time and money.

Cheers,

Cliff

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Hi,

Promote ur Addtional Domain Contorller as a Primay Domain
Contorller by assinging the roles to the addintional domain controller

Use can user NTDSUTIL for the same.





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