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Active Directory Disaster Recovery

You're reading from Active Directory Disaster Recovery

Product type Book

Published in Jun 2008

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781847193278

Pages 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Network Security

Author (1):

Florian Rommel

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Active Directory Disaster Recovery

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

1. Preface

1. An Overview of Active Directory Disaster Recovery

2. Active Directory Design Principles

3. Design and Implement a Disaster Recovery Plan for Your Organization

4. Strengthening AD to Increase Resilience

5. Active Directory Failure On a Single Domain Controller

6. Recovery of a Single Failed Domain Controller

7. Recovery of Lost or Deleted Users and Objects

8. Complete Active Directory Failure

9. Site AD Infrastructure Failure (Hardware)

10. Common Recovery Tools Explained

Sample Business Continuity Plan

Bibliography

Summary

In this chapter, we have elaborated on the steps to recover a completely failed DC. We have discussed the removal of the DC objects and the DNS records of the failed DC, and elaborated on why this is necessary.

Even though the removal of the old records may not appear to be very important, a part of this chapter explained in detail why the removal of old records is such an important step, and how it is done correctly. The recovery of a completely failed or broken DC is, as mentioned, a matter of installing a new one. The situation becomes trickier when, for political or other reasons such as applications that use specific servers, you need to use the same name as the failed DC.

By following the steps outlined in this chapter, you will end up with an AD that is clean, as though the old DC had never existed.

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Authors (1)

Florian Rommel

Florian was born and raised in his native Germany until the age of 15 when he moved with this family to Central America and then the US. He has worked in the IT industry for more then 14 years and has gained a wealth of experience in many different IT environments. He also has a personal interest in Information Security. His certifications include CISSP, SANS GIAC, MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, and several others. Together with his extensive experience, he is a qualified expert in the area of Information Security. After writing several Disaster Recovery guides for Active Directory environments he now brings you this unique publication, which he hopes will become a key title in the collection of many Windows Server Administrators and specialists. Florian lives with his wife and daughter in Finland where he also works as an IT Manager in a global company.  

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