Rebuild domain that lost it's DC.
I have a situation where the previous consultant never repaired the network. The server crashed, they didn't have a backup, they recovered the customer's data, but didn't rebuild the domain. So right now the Server is in workgroup, and the workstations are part of a domain that doesn't exist.
I was gonna try to rebuild the domain. Make it the same as the previous domain name, manually add the PCs and the users and hope the workstations work without me having to rebuild the user profiles.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
I was gonna try to rebuild the domain. Make it the same as the previous domain name, manually add the PCs and the users and hope the workstations work without me having to rebuild the user profiles.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Any utilities I can use to make porting the profiles a little easier?
If you have lost your domain, you have lost your users :(
How many users do you have? (you can script user creations)
How many users do you have? (you can script user creations)
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It's a small office, not to bad, maybe 10 to 15 workstations, If I create the computers accounts in the domain, if a name the domain the same as before, would they rejoin the domain right? or should I just remove the workstations from the old domain and start from scratch?
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What didn't you like about my comment opposed to the other 3 practically identical answers?
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Your right. Still getting use to this grading stuff. Sorry about that. He's answer was good too. They confirmed I was screwed. If you are reading this for the same problem. You have to rebuild, your screwed if you don't have a backup. Sorry for the bad news.
As discussed a backup DC setup as a secondary Global Catalog server could have prevented this from happening as you could have just promoted the backup DC to a PDC.
Sadly you're in a very bad spot and have no option but recreating the domain and rejoining all pc's/users