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Restoring Active Directory

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by garyadavis

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I need to restore my active directory to a new machine as we are stting up a QA enviroment. I have tried using the natinve windows backup to backup the system state, but then I cannot restore it onto the new machine. One of the problems is that the hardware is different in the
QA enviroment to our live enviroment. Please can someone tell me how I can restore the AD.

Thanks
Gary

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by cportman

You need to reboot your DC into Directory Services Restore mode - hit F8 when computer is loading Windows and select directory services restore. Let me know if you have already tried this - you may want to play around with the ntdsutil command.

Good luck
cp

by rvkempen

You don't want or need a restore.
Make the new server a domain controller, it then already has a copy of the active directory.
Move all the operation master roles to the new server with ntds util, remove the old server from the domain.
use ntdsutil to remove the old server from active directory.
your new server has to have a differenrt name then the old one, please do not try to keep using the old one, your sid will be very wrong, and problems will arise.

Good luck.
Ron

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