Re: Virtualized a child DC - need to recover due to USN rollback

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In news:9809C4B2-8C51-42FA-AD04-81803998E4B6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Jorge Silva <jorgesilva_pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>, posted the following:
That's why I think that he should connect the old DC to the network
First. Then do the tests to guarantee that everything was OK. After
that (and assuming that everything is ok) do the migration using the
correct methods (disconnect from network, do the system state backup,
etc...).
IM There's no point to recover a system state from a disconnected DC
that no one knows if it's working correctly and use it in a VM that
has different hardware characteristics, if things go wrong, that is
an extra thing to consider including the problems that he might have
in that operation.
In conclusion, first guarantee that the old DC is in fact working
correctly. If it's, then do the things in the right way.

But that's only my opinion :)

I agree. May as well take the VM machine off line and put the old one back up and make sure it works. If it does and it's replicating, etc, make a good backup of the System State and flat file backup of the hard drives. Then install Windows in the VM and simply restore the backup and he will have his DC up and running in the VM

Ace

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