How to recover Failure Domain Controller ?

[hdamis]

How to recover Failure Domain Controller ?

Our windows server 2003 domain controller failed to start and now I want to recover the server . I usually take a system state backup . and I did the following :
- install windows server 2003
- -dcpromo as the old one.(same name same dns name same ip)
- Tried to restore the system state from Direcotory Services Restore Mode and I restored it normally but when I restarted the server it didn’t started and It will be rebooted automatically before it will start the windows .
So what to do is there any thing else should I do or the system state not enough to recover the server .
I need to recover the GPO USERS and so on .

Thanks

 

[hdamis]

No one can answer this question ?

 

[somedea]

Is this the only domain controller in your domain? If not, you just reinstall server 2003, do dcpromo, and let the other domain controller replicate to it.

If this is the only DC, you can't do it by reinstalling windows. You have to do a restore.

This article should help:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...tory/maintain/opsguide/part1/adogd03.mspx#EVF

 

[bran2235]

(added question)...

If I have two DCs, and one dies (one with all FSMO roles), what would I do?

Thanks!
Brandon

 

[Davetoo]

Start a new post instead of tagging onto another one...

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[BenChristian]

To answer hdamnis' question, if you only have a single DC and it fails, then you will need to build a new 2003 server and then perform a system state restore (no need to dcpromo). The system state restore will restore the server back into a DC state.

Ben Christian
MCSE, MCSA:Messaging

http://www.benchristian.com