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Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition
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Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

by Dishan Francis
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
786 pages
20h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to troubleshoot AD DS database-related issues

AD maintains a multi-master database. Like any other database, there can be problems such as data corruption, crashes, and data loss. In my entire career, I still haven't come across a situation where a full database recovery was required in a production environment. The reason for this is that an AD DS database keeps replicating to other available domain controllers and it is very rare for all the available domain controllers to crash at the same time and lose data. Unlike other AD issues, there aren't many options for AD DS database troubleshooting.

In the following table, I have listed a few reasons for AD DS database-related issues:

Issue

Description

Hardware failure

The AD ...

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ISBN: 9781789800203