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Ideally the best way to prevent something like this happening would be to add a secondary DC so that you have at least a little failover. <br />
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If you are going to be running with a single DC I would highly reccomend taking complete backups daily of the entire system including system state. If you cant do it to tape back it up to an external disk or another server. 
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Ideally the best way to prevent something like this happening would be to add a secondary DC so that you have at least a little failover.

If you are going to be running with a single DC I would highly reccomend taking complete backups daily of the entire system including system state. If you cant do it to tape back it up to an external disk or another server.

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Active Directory failed and Can Not Be restored from Tape<br />
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The Firm has 1 Domain Controller, 1 exchange Server, and a few application server 2 are windows 2000 servers and 1 is windows 2003 server. All servers are part of the domain, but only one is a Domain Controller, and it runs also DHCP and DNS services.<br />
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If the Active directory failed on the domain controller, what and how should one approach this issue, if one wants to bring up the operation, and rebuild the fasiling domain controller later on.<br />
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Active Directory failed and Can Not Be restored from Tape

The Firm has 1 Domain Controller, 1 exchange Server, and a few application server 2 are windows 2000 servers and 1 is windows 2003 server. All servers are part of the domain, but only one is a Domain Controller, and it runs also DHCP and DNS services.

If the Active directory failed on the domain controller, what and how should one approach this issue, if one wants to bring up the operation, and rebuild the fasiling domain controller later on.



Active Directory failed and Can Not Be restored from Tape

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