Understanding the concept An authoritative restore is most commonly used when you want to revert the changes that is made within the directory. Consider the scenario you have deleted an organization unit or any of the objects by mistake and you want to get it back. This process restores the DC from the backup
Understanding the concept Non-authoritative restore method is used commonly when a DC failed because of a hardware or software related reasons and this is the default directory services restore mode selection. By default, the Backup tool operates in non-authoritative restore mode, that is when you restore data by using the any of the backup
Understanding the concept An authoritative restore is most commonly used when you want to revert the changes that is made within the directory, consider the scenario you have deleted an organization unit or any of the objects by mistake and you want to get it back. This process restores the DC from the backup
Understanding the concept As like previous versions of windows servers, there are two types of defragmentation online and offline. By default, online defragmentation automatically happens in every 12 hours as part of AD’s garbage-collection process and this process runs independently on each DC(Read to know more: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=198793). However the online defragmentation will not reduce the size
Understanding the concept There are instances that the size of the AD database and log files cannot be accommodated by the system drives since the size is small(permanently) or you need to reformat the preset hard disk because of any issues(temporarily ). If you reformat the original drive, use the same procedure to move
It is really necessary to have an additional DNS in order to keep the redundancy. If you have configured additional domain controller you may or may not be installed DNS as the part of additional domain creation. If you have not done you need to configure it manually and the below method can help you
Understanding the concept There are many instances that you need to forcefully remove the domain controllers in your network. If you have performed a successful demotion of the domain controller it will automatically remove the details of that domain controller from AD as well. But during the force removal of DC it will not happen
On a disaster recovery process you don’t need to manually restore DHCP server details as your System state recovery will recover DHCP server details as well. DHCP servers store DHCP lease and reservation information in database files(MDB file – Microsoft Access Database file). By default, these files are stored in the directory %SystemRoot%System32DHCP and this