A KB article might be a good idea actually. Definitely be good to be able to point to a definitive article on the subject when consultants bring this up as a possibility.
Phil
On 9/8/05, Almeida Pinto, Jorge de <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Funny how this topic comes up now and then...
I may even be worth creating a KB article on this issue or is that
useless?
Windows 2000/2003 DCs should NEVER, NEVER, NEVER be imaged for
backup/restore purposes! Imaging is NOT AD aware backup/restore solution
and thus not MS approoved!
A W2K3 pre-SP1 hotfix, a W2K post-SP4 hotfix and W2K3 SP1 will stop DCs
replicating by disabling replication when USN rollback is detected. As I
know the detection is not guaranteed, but when it detects it does that
to prevent further damage.
The same problem CAN occur when DCs are used in a virtual environment
and snapshots are used for example
Be very carefull with this!
Read more at:
MS-KBQ875495_How to detect and recover from a USN rollback in Windows
Server 2003
MS-KBQ885875_How to detect and recover from a USN rollback in Windows
2000 Server
If you don't pay attention to this mail or to mail from others about
this and still want to do it... Well, be sure you get enough coffee,
painkillers (for the headache you will get from it), dust off your ABBA
collection ;-) and afterwards possibly search for a new job or be ready
to get yelled at.
Cheers
Jorge
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Kern
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 23:03
To: activedirectory
Subject: [ActiveDir] cloning DC's
I know i read this thread before but i can't seem to find it.
we are creating a new forest root and the IBM consultants here created
the first root dc and now they want to clone it using Disk Image and
sysprep to create the other DC's in the root.
I think i heard this is a bad idea. Am I right?
I can't seem to find any article on this but I do remember this being
spoken of on the list and I don't remeber what the conculsion was.
thanks
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