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Deja's Tue 70-217 Question of the Day
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| Deja-vue 2003-01-07, 3:27 am |
| and today's little poser:
You are the enterprise administrator of a Windows 2000 domain named fabrikam.com. The domain contains three domain controllers named DCA, DCB, and DCC. DCA does not hold any operations master roles. You backed up the System state data of DCA two weeks ago. Without warning, the DCA domain controller's hard disk fails. You decide to replace DCA with a new computer. You install a new Windows 2000 server computer.
What should you do next?
A. Add the server to the domain. Do an authoritative restore of the original backup of the original DCA System State data that you made two weeks ago.
B. Add the server to the domain. Use Windows Backup to create a backup of the DCB System state data, and restore this backup on the new DCA.
C. Use the Active Directory installation wizard to make the new computer a replica in the domain.
D. Use the NTDSUTIL utility to copy the active Directory database from DCB to the new DCA.
We'll see ya tomorrow with the Answer.. | |
| drewgost 2003-01-07, 5:39 am |
| I would say "A" | |
| Djalminha 2003-01-07, 9:00 am |
| Hi,
I would say B, but I'm not sure...
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| Slinky 2003-01-07, 9:04 am |
| Hmm, tricky indeed. I would just promote the server to a DC and let the installation wizard update it. So that sounds like C.
I'm running to a corner to avoid the stick.  | |
| kopman 2003-01-07, 1:24 pm |
| I'll say C as none of the other answers talk about promoting the server to DC which would be the next step if you want to maintain the 3 DC's.
Kopman | |
| Deja-vue 2003-01-08, 12:28 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Deja-vue
and today's little poser:
You are the enterprise administrator of a Windows 2000 domain named fabrikam.com. The domain contains three domain controllers named DCA, DCB, and DCC. DCA does not hold any operations master roles. You backed up the System state data of DCA two weeks ago. Without warning, the DCA domain controller's hard disk fails. You decide to replace DCA with a new computer. You install a new Windows 2000 server computer.
What should you do next?
A. Add the server to the domain. Do an authoritative restore of the original backup of the original DCA System State data that you made two weeks ago.
B. Add the server to the domain. Use Windows Backup to create a backup of the DCB System state data, and restore this backup on the new DCA.
C. Use the Active Directory installation wizard to make the new computer a replica in the domain.
D. Use the NTDSUTIL utility to copy the active Directory database from DCB to the new DCA.
We'll see ya tomorrow with the Answer..
The Answer was indeed C.
You can restore a domain controller by reinstalling Windows 2000 Server on the damaged system, making it a domain controller, and allowing the correct information to be copied to it automatically by Active Directory. | |
| drewgost 2003-01-08, 8:49 am |
| I am wondering about answer "A", if you add a server to a Domain, that would make it a replica?, or at least a child? So then, you do an Authoritative restore from the back-up. From that point it would update itself. Would this work as well? Is this correct?
Still learning with a long way to go.
Drew G. | |
| Slinky 2003-01-08, 11:36 am |
| The bad thing about A is that it says to do an authoritative restore from a backup 2 weeks ago. If you've made a lot of changes since the last backup, then the authoritatative restore would overwrite all of those. With authoritative restores you are saying that the data you are restoring is more current that whats out there already. A is a viable option but its not the best one if you know what I mean. | |
| me? I dunno... 2003-01-09, 2:33 am |
| Slinky,
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A is a viable option
I thought system state data from one machine was not transferable to another?
Do you mean taking non-registry specific components out of the system state package and using them ? | |
| charlie69 2003-01-09, 12:10 pm |
| No, you cannot restore the system state data on another machine other than the one it was originally backed up on so it is wrong for two reasons the authoritative restore and the fact that it was another new computer to restore it onto. |
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