Remote DC crashed

[Carlos]

I am currently replacing DC at a remote location that had
crash. The crashed DC does not have reliable backup that
I could use to restore. The DC is going to be in a
different subnet, but in the same Domain. My plan of
action it to rebuild the DC at my location and start
replication of Active directory. After replication has
finished , change the IP address to fit the remote subnet
and ship it to its home location. I want to know if this
solution will work or if I should wait until the DC is at
its home location before I install AD and start
replication. I am open to any suggestions.

 

[Matjaz Ladava [MVP]]

You can prepare it at another site and then move it back to original site.
Just a advice: if your remote DC crashed, you have to do a metadata cleanup
in your AD, to remove references of your crashed DC. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216498

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Regards

Matjaz Ladava, MCSE (NT4 & 2000), Windows MVP
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http://ladava.com