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Rollback plan / backup plan before ADSI Edit for MS Exchange ?

I'm about to follow the article in this blog posting: http://www.itguydiaries.net/2012/07/omg-exchange-security-groups-were.html in order to restore all deleted / missing Exchange 2010 AD Security group in a single domain forest.

I'm just wondering what do I need to backup in case the ADSI edit or the SETUP.COM /PrepareSchema is screwing or making my currently working Exchange Server 2010 SP2 grinding into a halt ?

What are the roll back plan that you suggest ?

Thanks,

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Will Szymkowski

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Albert Widjaja

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OK so on this case the schema is modified from the Schema master role DC, so I just need to take the backup of the Schema Master role system state only using windows backup (2008R2). ?

Is that enough ?

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Albert Widjaja

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ok, great, I was worried about the AD replication to the other DCs. So yes I'll just take the backup from just this one Schema master role DC.

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Albert Widjaja

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Will, under what condition should I choose the "restore the image" over the normal "System State" backup only ?

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Albert Widjaja

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Many thanks for the clarification and explanation. All of my Domain Controller are on Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2003 with Windows Server 2003 Domain/Forest functionality level.

So I guess I don't have that feature for "cloning".