Recovery of Domain Controller from Recovery Vault

[Gil Blumberg]

Is anyone aware of a document outlining whether:

a) Supported to back up DC running in an Azure VM in Recovery Vault

b) Specific instructions if any for recovery from the Recovery Vault if required

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hey, Gil. You can Backup a Domain Controller with Azure Backup: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/active-directory-backup-restore Just have to keep an eye on the operational considerations around tombstone lifetime etc: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/get-started/virtual-dc/virtualized-do... If your restoring a domain controller, at is at least a few weeks old, your restore plan could be to build a new one and remove the records still pointing to the old one.