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What if there is only one other DC and I demote that before mounting the Windows 2003 DC with Exchange 2010 VHD 2 week old clone.
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What if there is only one other DC and I demote that before mounting the Windows 2003 DC with Exchange 2010 VHD 2 week old clone.

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If there is only one DC and there is no replication with other DCs bringing an old DC image should work with respect to changes made to this directory in these two weeks being gone. So some workstations etc might have problems with password mismatch, some objects might be missing etc.
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If there is only one DC and there is no replication with other DCs bringing an old DC image should work with respect to changes made to this directory in these two weeks being gone. So some workstations etc might have problems with password mismatch, some objects might be missing etc.

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Just speculating, &nbsp;I thought what if the Hyper v server motherboard and RAID &nbsp;that dies and I have a 2 week old VHD &nbsp;clone of Windows 2008 DC on a USB external drive &nbsp;with Exchange 2010 Server and copy it to &nbsp;a Hyper v &nbsp;new server mount it &nbsp;and restore the Information Store &nbsp;from backup., what if I have a recent backup exec 2010 system state backup, what are the steps to restore the system state backup ? If I have another DC with a GC , do I need to restore the system state backup?
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Just speculating,  I thought what if the Hyper v server motherboard and RAID  that dies and I have a 2 week old VHD  clone of Windows 2008 DC on a USB external drive  with Exchange 2010 Server and copy it to  a Hyper v  new server mount it  and restore the Information Store  from backup., what if I have a recent backup exec 2010 system state backup, what are the steps to restore the system state backup ? If I have another DC with a GC , do I need to restore the system state backup?

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