Re: DR - Active Directory

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Why not have one of te offsite servers configured in as A DC?
There is an article somewhere on MS site that allows you to export the System State and import it on another Server.

"Laura E. Hunter [MVP]" <nospamplease> wrote in message news:e7FoGxUmGHA.4268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Restoring to alternate hardware is a horrible exercise, though it's better in 2K3 than it was in 2000. If you're not going to have similar/identical hardware to restore to, deploying one or more DCs using Virtual Server is a useful option. Check out this document for more details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=64DB845D-F7A3-4209-8ED2-E261A117FC6B&displaylang=en

HTH

- Laura

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"MikeMerc" <MikeMerc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:86A7F21D-2DFE-4462-B1DC-10A21E112798@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Once a year we are requested to simulate a disaster and recover certain
servers and applications at an off-site location. This year, Active
Directory for a particular domain is in scope. We will simulate complete
destruction of the company's data center and the only software we will have
to recover is the original OS / Application CD's and tape backups stored at
an off-site vault. We do daily backups of the system state on every Windows
server we support but my question is even if we have these system state
backups on tape, how do I recover Active Directory if the servers at this
off-site location are different models from the orginal hardware? If I apply
the system state from a server that does not have an identical hardware
configuration I will have nothing but problems. Anyone have experience with
this?

Thanks,
-Mike



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