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        What Are The Two Things Required To Recover From AD Disaster?

Section(s): Active Directory , Active Directory , Active Directory
Published on Dec 21, 2010.
Last Modified on Oct 31, 2009.
Last Modified by Nirmal Sharma.
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This article explains the two important things required to recover from AD Disaster.

Disaster may happen anything! To recover from AD Disaster, you need to have two important things:

NTBackup

Backup of each NC is required in order to recovery failed domain controllers. The backup contains the NTDS.DIT which, in turn, contains the backup of all the NCs (Domain, Configuration, Global Catalog, Schema, and DNS Application Partitions), DNS Domain Data, System Files, etc.

DSRM Password

To recover from a failed domain controller, you log on to DSRM Mode and then run Ntbackup.exe to restore the backup.

About Nirmal Sharma

Nirmal is a Microsoft MVP in Directory Services and working as a Technical Architect/Consultant. He has been involved in Microsoft Technologies since 1994 and followed the progression of Microsoft Operating Systems and software. He is specialized in Directory Services, Microsoft Clustering, SQL, MOM, Exchange and Citrix. In his spare time, he likes to help others and write "internal" technical articles, white papers and tips on various Microsoft technologies. You can contact him at nirmal_sharma@mvps.org.