the difference is he'd only have one dc online until he was sure which schema version he was using.
Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Rankin, James R Sent: 6/8/2012 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Schema upgrade/rollback Reverting to snapshot normally bad with DCs due to USN rollback. I've seen it done, but I wouldn't want to try my luck. A sandboxed test environment is the way to go. ---Blackberried ________________________________ From: David Lum <david....@nwea.org> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 19:32:14 +0000 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: Schema upgrade/rollback In this day and age of VM’s, what would be the simplest way to test and possibly roll back a schema extension? Would this work? 1. Power down all DC’s 2. Snapshot schema master 3. Power up schema master 4. Extend schema 5. Smoke test a. If there are failures revert to snapshot b. If all checks out OK power up remaining DC’s David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
