Disaster Recovery and Maintenance
This lab contains the following exercises:
Exercise 10.1 Resolving Replication Issues
Exercise 10.2 Performing a System State Data Backup
Exercise 10.3 Compacting the Database
Exercise 10.4 Performing an Authoritative Restore
Estimated lab time: 110 minutes
Exercise 10.1
Resolving Replication Issues
Overview
Your manager sends instructions to two different administrators to perform conflicting tasks. These administrators perform the tasks on two different domain controllers in two different sites. After replication occurs, you notice odd results in the Active Directory Users And Computers node.
Completion time
30 minutes
PART B: Discovering and Resolving the Issue
Question 1
What does the alphanumeric string appended to the Accounting OU name represent?
It indicates that there was an AD replication conflict resolution with the accounting OU.
2. Press Ctrl+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Active Directory Users and Computers console showing the Accounting OUs, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the lab10_worksheet file in the page provided.
Exercise 10.2
Performing a System State Data Backup
Overview
You are about to make some configuration changes to your Active Directory database. You want to have a current System State data backup before you proceed.
Completion time
30 minutes
PART B: Perform the System State Backup
11. Press Ctrl+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Backup Once Wizard indicating that the backup was completed, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the lab10_worksheet file in the page provided.
Exercise 10.3
Compacting the Database
Overview
You want to reduce the space that Active Directory occupies on your domain controller.
Completion time
30 minutes
1. Press Ctrl+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the command prompt window showing the statistics for the newly compacted database and then press Ctrl+V to paste the