tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7365513794075231499.post7127739759745568414..comments2024-03-08T00:28:08.621-08:00Comments on My blog about Active Directory and everything else: Windows Server 8 AD Cloning, Virtualization, and Snapshots Warningmklinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770498033295580147noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7365513794075231499.post-9399929131450886712012-06-07T12:03:13.740-07:002012-06-07T12:03:13.740-07:00Hello Mike, First congratulations for the blog. Th...Hello Mike, First congratulations for the blog. That's a really interesting topic about the new WS 2012. I have a question regardingt DC Cloning with WS 2K12, I am having problems with the final step of the cloning, I believe it is the simplest step I am missing somewhere during the step process.<br />My First question is:<br /><br />My scenario is:<br /><br />1DC01 - (PDC)<br />1DC02 - (Source DC)<br /><br />1 - It is mandatory to have a CustomDCCloneAllowList file within the NTDS.DIT Directory for the cloning process to work or can I only put the DCCloneConfig File (I mean, I've run the cmdlet to find any program and it returns nothing)?<br /><br />2 - I am doing everything on my source DC (Pasting the file on the right path, editing the file with the specific informations, copying or exporting the VM or the VHDx file. Evething like Microsoft suggest, but I cannot finish the Cloning. <br /><br />When I boot the source VM, it works great, normally, however when I first boot the Cloned one, it shows those informations bellow:<br /><br />"Getting devices ready"<br />after a few minutes,(there is no message "Domain Controller Cloning is in.. " it reboots.<br />After reboots, it shows the "please wait" and finally it allows me to put my credentials, however when I try to logon as a Domain Admin, it show the error message "There are Currently no logon servers available to service the logon request"<br />If I decided to log as a Local Administrator, it logs in in SAFE MODE.<br />When I look for the informations, it's got the same source Hostname, but everything is similar to a brand new machine. No IP Configuration Changes (instead, it clears the IP Configuration, now it is DHCP), No Names Changed, Etc.<br /><br />What am I doing wrong, you have any idea?<br /><br />Thanks a lotEden Oliveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00107800656135476990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7365513794075231499.post-75434436337847643832012-06-07T12:02:46.211-07:002012-06-07T12:02:46.211-07:00Hello Mike, First congratulations for the blog. Th...Hello Mike, First congratulations for the blog. That's a really interesting topic about the new WS 2012. I have a question regardingt DC Cloning with WS 2K12, I am having problems with the final step of the cloning, I believe it is the simplest step I am missing somewhere during the step process.<br />My First question is:<br /><br />My scenario is:<br /><br />1DC01 - (PDC)<br />1DC02 - (Source DC)<br /><br />1 - It is mandatory to have a CustomDCCloneAllowList file within the NTDS.DIT Directory for the cloning process to work or can I only put the DCCloneConfig File (I mean, I've run the cmdlet to find any program and it returns nothing)?<br /><br />2 - I am doing everything on my source DC (Pasting the file on the right path, editing the file with the specific informations, copying or exporting the VM or the VHDx file. Evething like Microsoft suggest, but I cannot finish the Cloning. <br /><br />When I boot the source VM, it works great, normally, however when I first boot the Cloned one, it shows those informations bellow:<br /><br />"Getting devices ready"<br />after a few minutes,(there is no message "Domain Controller Cloning is in.. " it reboots.<br />After reboots, it shows the "please wait" and finally it allows me to put my credentials, however when I try to logon as a Domain Admin, it show the error message "There are Currently no logon servers available to service the logon request"<br />If I decided to log as a Local Administrator, it logs in in SAFE MODE.<br />When I look for the informations, it's got the same source Hostname, but everything is similar to a brand new machine. No IP Configuration Changes (instead, it clears the IP Configuration, now it is DHCP), No Names Changed, Etc.<br /><br />What am I doing wrong, you have any idea?<br /><br />Thanks a lotEden Oliveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00107800656135476990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7365513794075231499.post-55285298926201796832012-03-21T04:03:13.936-07:002012-03-21T04:03:13.936-07:00Thanks Krystof, I saw one blog where they person s...Thanks Krystof, I saw one blog where they person said people could just copy VHD files and that's it with Windows 8. I can imagine future versions making it a bit easier. I agree with you about templates.<br /><br />Thanks for the nice words, I appreciate that a lot!mklinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770498033295580147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7365513794075231499.post-13668388284776052632012-03-21T00:23:20.079-07:002012-03-21T00:23:20.079-07:00Hello Mike,
that's really good you pointed ou...Hello Mike,<br /><br />that's really good you pointed out that this action cannot be performed 'just like that'. Many of us probably heard about this new feature and thought 'Hey! I can simply clone and restore DC from snapshot' but it is not so simple :)<br /><br />and I would suggest that less experienced administrators shouldn't do that in production before they would test it in their own test environment. This may save a lot of time with cleaning up a USN Rollback as you mentioned at the beginning of this post and many new posts to solve on forums ;)<br /><br />In bigger virtualized environments, I still suggest using templates to deploy new server (and promote it as DC then) i.e. in ESX or XenServer<br /><br />Good job, Mike! I really like your blog! Thanks for writting.<br /><br />Regards,<br />KrzysztofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com