Hi all,
We have a customer with SBS 2008 Standard SP2 - A punctured stripe has been identified by Dell, and they have advised a complete wipe and reinstall of the RAID 5 array.
We have a full and current backup of the server and all its files before the punctured stripe occured and I will need to restore from this. I did however have a question about the Active Directory side of things. I am planning to build a virtual machine on my work laptop, take it to the customers site and DCPROMO it so we have a live copy of Active Directory on this VM as well as a copy of it on tape which we can restore using Backup Exec.
In theroy could I DCPROMO my virtual machine and get a copy of AD running on it, then turn off and wipe the SBS server, then rebuild and when I pop the SBS dvd media in, I could choose to say i am doing a migration? Would this work? I am thinking i could just seize the FSMO roles and then when i fire up SBS in migration mode it will automatically take back the FSMO roles anyway.
Can someoneconfirm if this is th right thing to do as i havent done a full rebuild of SBS before so am understandably cautious and nervous about how to play this!
many thanks