Re: How to do maintenance repair in AD

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I have all those suggestions you mentioned in place.
2 DC, RAID, and backup except that I'm only running the
standard version instead of Enterprise.

No problem about that, AD can't be clustered, anyway. And it sure doesn't need more than four CPUs :-)

I used to managed Netware server for 12 years and now we are switching
to Windows. In Netware, there is a utility called DSREPAIR that you
can run to check the integrity of eDir or NDS. And that is something
I'm looking for in Windows. I just want to see and run a utility similar to
DSREPAIR in Windows. Just to be comfort that I ran something that will
that will take care of any problems it will find and see the results rather
than just relying on something that I'm not really sure how it's doing it.

In AD, changes are always replicated between all domain controllers, so, if ever one of them should have corrupted data (and not be aware of it), this would generate a replication conflict and the problem would emerge. Also, the database storage engine (ESE) is the same one used by Exchange, and it's quite reliable; it sure is capable of detecting database corruptions.

If you really (*really*) want to check the database for consistency, you can take one domain controller offline and use NTDSUTIL to do some offline maintenance, like checking the status of the DB, moving it to a different path or defragmenting it. This is also the utility you should use to fix some specific problems (like deleting defunct domain controllers) and to restore backups, if you need to. Be warned that this is utility is really powerful, and a misplaced command can destroy your domain controller (or domain) quite easily.

My advice: rely on the O.S. to take care of things for you, but learn anyway what tools are there to help you if in need.



Massimo

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