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Friday, May 6, 2011

repair someone's windows 2003 AD ... notes from long past......

ntdsutil filesinfo
ntdsutil files integrity

ntdsutil "semda" go

ntdsutil "semda" "gof"

repair c:\windows\ntds\ntds.dit

boot to dsrestore mode .... forgot ds recovery password

use ms desktop pack (?) to recover / reset it

once ad is corrupted on the pdc, the windows 2003 wont start ... gave some ad errors,

you can notice nTbackup would fail on that

I sorta of recovered to a stage that the pdc will boot, exchange 2003 will work (exmerge will work)

but ntbackup still fail, it means the ad is still corrupted

i noticed netlogon folder is not on sysvol...

This proves using imaging solutions for backup is Not enough, because it can't tell whether the data is corrupted or not , or when it is corrupted


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