Recovering Active Directory
When undesired changes are made in Active Directory or the Active Directory database is corrupted on a domain controller, recovering the Active Directory database might be necessary. Restoring Active Directory can seem like a difficult task, unless frequent backups are performed and the administrator understands all the restore options.
The Active Directory Database
The Active Directory database contains all the information stored in Active Directory. The Global Catalog information is also stored in this database. The actual filename is ntds.dit and, by default, is located in C:\Windows\NTDS\. When a domain controller is restored from server failure, the Active Directory database is restored with the system state. ...
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