It’s unfortunate to be in situation of losing a domain controller and it gets worst if that was one of the role master. Here I’d like to detail a scenario and possible options within AD and out of the box to handle such an incident.
Scenario:
Assume you have DCs with one hosting Forest Level and the other hosting the Domain Level FSMO roles. These two DCs are physical systems running with Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2. These servers are located in two different sub networks as well as in different geographical locations.
Systems layout:
DataCenter#1: US
ServerName: USDC01
Network Range: 172.17.5.x
DataCenter#1: UK
ServerName: UKDC01
Network Range: 172.17.6.x
Now let’s say you have lost the
