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Active Directory Disaster Recovery

You're reading from   Active Directory Disaster Recovery Expert guidance on planning and implementing Active Directory disaster recovery plans with this book and eBook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2008
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ISBN-13 9781847193278
Length 252 pages
Edition Edition
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Florian Rommel Florian Rommel
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Active Directory Disaster Recovery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. An Overview of Active Directory Disaster Recovery FREE CHAPTER 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


This chapter provided a step-by-step guide to forest recovery and, as mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, this is something that should be used only as a last resort. It's a very time consuming process when you have to remove all of the old records and reset passwords. Proper AD documentation will help immensely in this scenario. Something to be understood is that in medium to large organizations or multinational organizations this scenario will not be accomplished within a day. This will be an outage for several days until you have a fully recovered a functional forest. On the other hand, large organizations should have safeguards in place, such as proper replication schedules, that will allow stopping the replications and hence, minimizing the DCs affected.

When performing a forest recovery, monitoring, checking for errors, ensuring data availability, and making sure that servers are registered in the DNS and can communicate, are standard good practices to follow. There...

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