Active Directory Disaster Recovery

Book Description

The book is a combined planning/response-focused book and can be read end to end but also is designed so that the second half can be read standalone, should disaster have struck already. This book is targeted at network security professionals who find themselves charged with creating an Active Directory Disaster Recovery plan or who want to quickly recover once disaster has struck. This book expects you to be familiar with the basics of Active Directory and Windows Servers.

What you will learn

• The first part covers: Active Directory design principles Proper planning for disaster recovery Preventive measures for your AD Creating a business continuity plan (with a working sample) Configuring lag sites and working in a virtual environment Using and understanding tools to analyze and monitor AD The second part includes step-by-step instructions to recover from: Single domain controller hardware failure Active Directory corruption on a single domain controller Deleted or lost objects Global Active Directory corruption Site Active Directory infrastructure (hardware) failure Global Active Directory infrastructure (hardware) failure

Who this book is for