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Restore AD windows 2016 server
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If the hardware of the primary DC is faulty can we restore the backup of AD and system state on another server ?
If the hardware of the primary DC is faulty can we restore the backup of AD and system state on another server ?
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Possibly, but the much safer method is to always have at least two domain controllers for high availability and disaster mitigation.
In our environment we have a primary DC01 AND secondary DC02 so if the first is down can we join computers to domain through the secondary DC02 ?
If the roles holder fails then you can seize roles to anther healthy one.
Transfer or seize FSMO roles - Windows Server | Microsoft Docs
then perform cleanup to remove failed one from directory
Clean up AD DS server metadata | Microsoft Docs
Step-By-Step: Manually Removing A Domain Controller Server (microsoft.com)then rebuild failed one.
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