Losing one domain controller isn’t a thing you appreciate, but rebuilding one DC in an running forest is easy. Losing an entire forest because of corruption or compromised assets isn’t exactly that. In this series, Let’s see how to prepare an AD Forest Disaster Recovery plan. Hint: you’d better practice […]
Since the initial times of Windows 2003, things have changed. Restoring AD objects, including DNS Zones become simpler with each release of Windows Server. Therefore let’s see how you can restore users, computers, organizational units and DNS zones nowadays. Restoring AD objects for standard classes Since Windows 2008 R2, Get-ADObject […]
Why bother with Windows Server backup in large environments? Even in big companies, having a backup of your Active Directory forest can be challenging: do you know what you must backup? do you know if the backup infrastructure and software allows you to backup what you need do you know […]
If you’re a Sharepoint architect, you have probably thought about the backup and restore strategy for the machines that make your farm: SQL Servers, Front-End Servers. However thinking about user cases may allow to tweak the overall strategy and reduced the perceived SLA by the end-user. Let’s imagine the common […]
