Re: Reinstall W2K Domain Controller

From: Daniel Calderon (daniel_at_ulima.edu.pe)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:42:28 -0500

But, restoring the System State would restore the Active Directory with all
the previous existing problems...
Thatīs the point!

"Amanda" <nospam@spam.com> wrote in message
news:OOWy90b8DHA.1640@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Take a full backup of the server.
>
> Reinstall the OS on the server and run all Windows updates.
>
> Restore the server. Make usure when you do a system state restore to boot
> into Active Directory Restore Mode. Press F8 on system startup.
>
> "Daniel Calderon" <daniel@ulima.edu.pe> wrote in message
> news:uK6UrBb8DHA.2412@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have this problem and I would like to receive some advice.
> >
> > I have a W2K Domain Controller(DC) that is also Exchange2K and DNS
server
> > and the only DC of this domain.
> > This DC has several legacy problems.
> > By example: If I run the AD tools locally on the server, they run ok and
I
> > can view user and computer objects and even add new ones. But, if in a
> > workstation I try to set NTFS permissions on a share, I can't get the
> users
> > list form the DC... it's weird... I think is something wrong with the
PDC
> > emulator role.
> > I even run dcdiag and in the Fsmocheck part, it fails.
> >
> > So, as I said, these are legacy problems and I want to reinstall the
> server,
> > but I have Exchange mailboxes also.
> >
> > How can I reinstall this server and keeping the user account so I can
> > associate with its respective mailbox once I restore the exchange
> backup???
> >
> > Any idea will be well received.
> > TIA,
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
>
>

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