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You cannot &quot;promote&quot; as you say, but you can seize the roles forcefully if a role holder goes offline and will either, take too long to be restored or the server had a fatal failure that you cannot recover from.<br />
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The articles below describe what you can do and how to do it.<br />
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Links:<br />
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1. &nbsp;<a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/255504/using-ntdsutil.exe-to-transfer-or-seize-fsmo-roles-to-a-domain-controller" rel="ugc">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/255504/using-ntdsutil.exe-to-transfer-or-seize-fsmo-roles-to-a-domain-controller</a><br />
2. &nbsp;<a href="https://www.petri.com/seizing_fsmo_roles" rel="ugc">https://www.petri.com/seizing_fsmo_roles</a><br />
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Dan
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You cannot "promote" as you say, but you can seize the roles forcefully if a role holder goes offline and will either, take too long to be restored or the server had a fatal failure that you cannot recover from.

The articles below describe what you can do and how to do it.

Links:

1.  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/255504/using-ntdsutil.exe-to-transfer-or-seize-fsmo-roles-to-a-domain-controller [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/255504/using-ntdsutil.exe-to-transfer-or-seize-fsmo-roles-to-a-domain-controller]
2.  https://www.petri.com/seizing_fsmo_roles [https://www.petri.com/seizing_fsmo_roles]

Dan

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If I have a good backup of the DC, Can I just restore it if that server fails/corrupted AD?<br />
or do I have to restore it directory restore mode?
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If I have a good backup of the DC, Can I just restore it if that server fails/corrupted AD?
or do I have to restore it directory restore mode?

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Any additional info about this question?<br />
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Dan
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Any additional info about this question?

Dan

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Thank you for the information.
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I am creating a disaster recovery plan for our Active Directory environment. We have multiple sites and each site has domain controllers.<br />
We have FSMO, schema master holder server (SRV1-DC) at site A . If SRV1-DC1 fail , can I promote other DC from another site as FSMO, schema master?<br />
Or Do I have to restore SRV-DC from my backup?. Any help or advise is very much appreciated.
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I am creating a disaster recovery plan for our Active Directory environment. We have multiple sites and each site has domain controllers.
We have FSMO, schema master holder server (SRV1-DC) at site A . If SRV1-DC1 fail , can I promote other DC from another site as FSMO, schema master?
Or Do I have to restore SRV-DC from my backup?. Any help or advise is very much appreciated.

schema master

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