USN Rollbacks - Best Practice

posted by  kevyn (54)  12 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

I was talking best practices the other day with a customer with regards to what Backup Software to use and the use of Virtualized hosting environments. I recommended to the customer to utilise backup software that uses the Microsoft APIs, or the Software that uses the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy APIs. If you use Active Directory aware backup programs that use these APIs, then the invocation I.D. is reset before the Active Directory is restarted. Because of this, the "restored" Domain Controller identifies itself as a new Domain Controller . This will prompt the other Domain Contr