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Creating a test Win2K DC

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by seskds

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I want to create a DC for testing purposes (on its own LAN) etc. which will be named the same, and have the same SAM databases as my production DC (PDC). It does not contain the same hardware as my current production DC. In the end, I want to be able to load Exchange 5.5 and restore my Information Store to it so I can pull some old folders and e-mails out of it. In the old NT4 days I could set it up as a BDC, take it offline, change its name, promote it to a
PDC, and then off to the races with Exchange.

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by seskds

Option 1 requires the addition of this server to my production domain, something I do not want to do. The second option, restoring the system state from the current production DC onto the 'test' server, caused the 'test' server to reject the 'administrator' logon and I ended up reloading the O/S. One very nice, but pricey, utility I found in the interim is "PowerControls" by Ontrack. This utility actually loads the unmounted .edb files (so Exchange does not need to be operational) and providesits own Outlook like interface for recovering mailboxes to .pst files.

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