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Best Practices: Active Directory Forest Recovery

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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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Version: 1.0 Date published: 10/4/2002
Language: English
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forestrecovery.exe 176 KB Download

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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

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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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