The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P69:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 646 Chapter 19 Ensuring Active Directory Availability Figure The Restore Progress Dialog Box During a Restore Figure The Restore Progress Dialog Box After the Restore Has Completed Figure The Restore Log - Notepad File Edit Format View Help Restore Status 3 operation Restore Backup of system state Restored to system state Backup set 1 on media 1 Backup description set created 5 27 2003 at 2 15 PM Restore started on 5 27 2003 at 2 47 PM. Restore completed on 5 27 2003 at 2 51 PM. Directories 193 Files 2370 Byres 436 910 685 Time 3 minutes and 42 seconds 22. Click the Yes button in the Backup Utility dialog box when prompted to restart and reboot the server normally. Ensuring Active Directory Availability Chapter 19 647 Authoritative Restore There are times when a normal restore of Active Directory isn t sufficient for example when you accidentally delete an OU. Within a few minutes the deletion will have replicated to the other DCs in the domain. If you perform a normal restore in an effort to repopulate the OU back into Active Directory it will not work. When the DC reboots after the restore and replicates with its replication partners they will have a higher version number for the deleted OU and the restored DC will be told to delete the object all over restore the object you must use an authoritative restore. An authoritative restore is like a normal restore up to a point. Once the system state data has been restored rather than rebooting the server the Ntdsutil command-line utility is used to mark one or more objects as gives them a very high version number so that when the server is rebooted and the replication process takes place the other servers in the domain will see the high version number and replicate the object to their own Active Directory databases. To restore a database authoritatively follow the steps from the preceding section up to number 18 and then proceed to these steps 1. Click the No .
