Don’t Let Your Active Directory Forest Burn Around You: The Essential Planning Guide for AD Forest Recovery

Active Directory (AD) is the cornerstone of most Windows networks, and the number of systems that depend on AD is often quite substantial. These systems generally range from those often taken for granted, such as workstation logons, to critical services such as email and line-of-business applications. If AD stops functioning due to a disaster, the impact can be catastrophic because core business functions often will stop too. With this in mind, it’s critical that you have a proper recovery plan in place that covers AD disasters ranging from accidental object deletions to scenarios that require a full forest recovery.

In this white paper, we look at a number of scenarios that might necessitate a full recovery of an AD forest. Ready yourself for the worst: In this paper, you’ll learn how—with the right tools, training, and preparation—you can overcome Active Directory disasters. Because Active Directory disasters often directly correlate to human error, you’ll also learn how to prevent those errors by developing a functional test environment that closely models production.