Updated Microsoft Forest Recovery White Paper

I haven't read this entire document all the way through yet but I'm going to. Disaster recovery is something that most of us don't practice or plan for enough.

Planning for Active Directory Forest Recovery

"This paper is a best-practice recommendation for recovering an Active Directory® directory service forest, if forest-wide failure has rendered all domain controllers in the forest incapable of functioning normally. The steps, which you must customize for your particular environment, describe how to recover the entire Active Directory forest to a point in time before the critical malfunction. They also ensure that none of the restored domain controllers replicates from a domain controller with potentially dangerous data."

Guido Grillenmeier and Gil Kirkpatrick also have a really great AD disaster recovery whitepaper that is worth reading (published with NetPro was still around).

Thanks

Mike