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The AD Seminars
Active Directory - Maximizing Performance with 64-Bit Windows
Securing Active Directory Access | Active Directory Internals
Active Directory Disaster Recovery | Stretching Directory Boundaries
Additional Sessions




Active Directory® Disaster Recovery
Windows® 2000 and Windows® Server 2003

One-Day Seminar (level-400)

Presented by
John Craddock

Demos by
Sally Storey



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Infrastructure Components and Services

This session provides a detailed explanation of each of the infrastructure components and services and the system impact if they fail. You will learn best practices for their placement within a forest and how to locate and manage roles through the use of the system and support tools.


 

Infrastructure components and services

 

• Forest and domain roles

 

• DNS requirements

 

• Know your forest is healthy

 

• Replication model

 

• Forest and domain single masters (FSMO)
     Schema, domain naming, infrastructure, RID, PDC

 

• Managing the RID master

 

• The Global Catalog

 

• Phantom records



File Replication Service (FRS)
Parts 1 & 2

This two-part session provides you with an insight into how FRS operates and the tools that are now available to monitor and troubleshoot FRS replication. We’ll show you how to troubleshoot FRS both on Windows® 2000 and Windows® Server 2003.


 

File Replication Service

 

• FRS Terminology

 

• SYSVOL and DFS replica sets

 

• Requirements for file replication

 

• Restoring a domain controller through reinstallation

 

• FRS database

 

• IdTable, inlog and outlog

 

• USN Change journal

 

• Managing journal wrap

 

• Non-authoritative and authoritative restores of replica data

 

• Staging areas

 

• Sysvol junction points and DFS dependencies

 

• Replication topologies and schedules

 

• Tracking and debugging changes

 

• Managing morphed folders

 

• Tools: SONAR, NTFRSUTL, DFSUTIL and more…



Active Directory® Backup and Restore

This session examines Active Directory® backup and the issues surrounding authoritative and non-authoritative backup and restore.


 

Backup and restore

 

• Database and log files

 

• Integrity tests / Diagnostic levels

 

• AD backup

 

• System state

 

• Database disasters

 

• Restore through reinstallation

 

• Metadata cleanup

 

• Restoring SYSVOL from backup

 

• GC restoration

 

• Authoritative restores

 

• Restoring user and group membership

 

• Linked attributes

 

• Forest-wide group membership

 

• Other caveats

 

• Solution for restoring systems



Recovering a Forest

This session takes you through a procedure for recovering a complete forest.


 

Recovering a Forest

 

• Assessing the situation

 

• Is recovery possible?

 

• Recovering the root domain

 

• Recovering other domains

 

• Post recovery tests


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Latest Books
Active Directory® Forestry

Investigating and Managing Objects and Attributes for Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 – A Geek’s Guide

This book peels back the covers on the Active Directory® and provides you with technical in-depth details of objects and attributes and how they interact.

ISBN 0-9544218-0-9

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