Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
DC Promotion from Media
An ingenious mechanism in Windows Server 2012 that allows for the creation of a DC directly from media such as a burnt CD/DVD, USB drives, or tape. The upshot of this technique is that it is now possible to remotely build a DC or GC server across a slow WAN link by shipping the media to the remote site ahead of time, effectively eliminating the common practice of building a DC in the central site and then shipping it to a remote site after the fact.
The concept behind the media-based GC/DC replication is straightforward. A current, running DC backs up the directory through a normal backup process. The backup files are then copied to a backup media, such as a CD/DVD, USB drive, or tape, and shipped off to the remote destination. ...
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