Reinstallation scenario

[MCSLOY]

If anyone has experianced the following scenario, I would be grateful if you could tell me how you went about solving it.

A customer has 1 dc and 10 clients in a domain. The server was destroyed by fire, but all the clients survived unscathed. There is no backup of the system state but a backup of company documents is available. So the customer buys a new server and installs 2003 server. After restoring the documents to the new server, recreating user/computer accounts and file permissions and naming the new dc the same as the old one, what else is needed to be done? Will clients lose settings when I join their machines to the the new dc? Thanks for taking the time to read this.

 

[kmkeshav]

What you have done is a new (similar setup resembling the old) setup. You have to do all the settings again for the users.

-Keshav / IT Consultant

 

[nsanto17]

You will also need to copy thier old user profiles to their new one once they join the new domain

 

[58sniper]

And you should invite them to purchase a fire proof media safe to store the backups and ASR media.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

 

[adamc1115]

You could use a utility called the user profile wizard. It essentially migrates your users profile to the new domain without them losing any settings.

I use this on any small network when migrating to a new domain..

http://www.forensit.com/profwiz/index.htm

 

[MCSLOY]

Many thanks to you all for all your advice and taking the time to help me.