September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
The first step to cloning the DC is to add it to the Cloneable Domain Controllers group in Active Directory. This can be done in Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAC), as shown in Figure 7.16, or it can be inputted via the following PowerShell cmdlet (assuming a domain of companyabc.com):
Add-ADGroupMember –Identity "CN=Cloneable DomainControllers,CN=Users,DC=companyabc,DC=com" –Member "CN=2012-DC2,OU=DomainControllers,DC=companyabc,DC=com"
Figure 7.16. Adding the DC to the proper group in AD for virtualization cloning
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