Best Practices: Active Directory Forest Recovery
Brief Description
This paper is a best practice recommendation for recovering an Active Directory® forest after forest-wide failure has rendered all domain controllers (DCs) in the forest incapable of functioning normally. One section of the paper describes how you can reset trust passwords on one side of the trust.
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Quick Details
| File Name: | forestrecovery.exe |
| Version: | 1.001 |
| Date Published: | 10/4/2002 |
| Language: | English |
| Download Size: | 176 KB |
| Estimated Download Time: | 1 min 56K |
Overview
This paper is a best practice recommendation for recovering an Active Directory® forest after forest-wide failure has rendered all domain controllers (DCs) in the forest incapable of functioning normally. One section of the paper describes how you can reset trust passwords on one side of the trust. This requires the use of the Netdom.exe tool accompanying this paper only. 
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System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000
Windows 2000 Server family with an Active Directory forest Top of page
Instructions
To download the paper:
1. Click on the link above (forestrecovery.exe)
2. Save it to a directory on your local computer
3. Double-click on Forestrecovery.exe.
4. This extracts the paper and the Netdom tool
Warning: Use the accompanying Netdom tool for the steps described in this paper ONLY. Do NOT use this tool for any other purpose.
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