Active Directory Forest Recovery - Procedures
This section contains procedures related to the forest recovery process.
The following is a list of procedures that are used in backing up and restoring domain controllers and Active Directory.
- Back up a full server
- Back up the System State data
- Perform a full server recovery
- Perform an authoritative synch of DFSR-replicated SYSVOL
- Perform a nonauthoritative restore of Active Directory Domain Services
These steps explain how to perform an authoritative restore of SYSVOL at the same time.
- Configure the DNS Server service
- Remove the global catalog
- Raise the value of available RID pools
- Invalidate the current RID pool
- Seize an operations master role
- Clean up after a restore
- Clean the metadata of removed writable domain controllers
- Reset the computer account password of the domain controller
- Reset the krbtgt password
- Reset a trust password on one side of the trust
- Add the global catalog
- Resources to verify replication is working
Next steps
- AD Forest Recovery - Prerequisites
- AD Forest Recovery - Devise a custom forest recovery plan
- AD Forest Recovery - Steps to restore the forest
- AD Forest Recovery - Identify the problem
- AD Forest Recovery - Determine how to recover
- AD Forest Recovery - Perform initial recovery
- AD Forest Recovery - Procedures
- AD Forest Recovery - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- AD Forest Recovery - Recover a single domain within a multidomain forest
- AD Forest Recovery - Redeploy remaining DCs
- AD Forest Recovery - Virtualization
- AD Forest Recovery - Cleanup