Active Directory restore (6.2.4)
Remember that during the process of adding the AD DS role (in the Adding the Active Directory Domain Services role section of Chapter 4, Directory Services in Windows Server), in one of the steps of the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password is required (see Figure 10.8). That password is very important for AD restore, so you have to be careful. DSRM is to AD as Safe Mode is to the OS. It is a way of restoring AD when the latter has failed or requires restoring. Usually, there are two methods for restoring data that is replicated on a DC. The first method has to do with reinstalling the OS, reconfiguring the DC, and then through normal replication, ...
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