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Windows Server 2003 - Authoritative Restore<br />
<a href="http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/w2k3/utilities/windows_authoritative_restore.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/w2k3/utilities/windows_authoritative_restore.htm</a>
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Windows Server 2003 - Authoritative Restore
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/w2k3/utilities/windows_authoritative_restore.htm [http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/w2k3/utilities/windows_authoritative_restore.htm]

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Hi,<br />
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May i know for entire domain restore why you are chossing authoritive restore, i suggest for entire domain restore you can go for Non-Authoritive restore...<br />
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Hope this make sense..<br />
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Also refer this link for more:<br />
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727048.aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727048.aspx</a><br />
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Please let me know if you have any questions<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Prem
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Hi,

May i know for entire domain restore why you are chossing authoritive restore, i suggest for entire domain restore you can go for Non-Authoritive restore...

Hope this make sense..

Also refer this link for more:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727048.aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727048.aspx]

Please let me know if you have any questions

Cheers,
Prem

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I've been to this page. &nbsp;It says how to restore an OU. &nbsp;I just want a straight answer as to what to say in ntdsutil, after doing the ntbackup restore, to get the whole active directory back from the time of the backup.
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I've been to this page.  It says how to restore an OU.  I just want a straight answer as to what to say in ntdsutil, after doing the ntbackup restore, to get the whole active directory back from the time of the backup.

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I want to do a complete Active Directory restore for a Windows 2003 domain controller for the domain. &nbsp;Oddly enough, I haven't found any documentation that says how to do a complete authoritative restore for the whole domain. &nbsp;Everything seems to reference restoring particular OUs. &nbsp;I want to authoritatively restoe the entire active directory for all the domain controllers. &nbsp;What do I have ntdsutil run to restore the entire domain configuration?
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I want to do a complete Active Directory restore for a Windows 2003 domain controller for the domain.  Oddly enough, I haven't found any documentation that says how to do a complete authoritative restore for the whole domain.  Everything seems to reference restoring particular OUs.  I want to authoritatively restoe the entire active directory for all the domain controllers.  What do I have ntdsutil run to restore the entire domain configuration?

authoritative restore of entire AD

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).