Verify Active Directory restore

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

After the restore is completed, use this procedure to restart the server and perform basic verification.

Administrative credentials

To verify Active Directory restore, you must be a member of the Domain Admins group.

To verify Active Directory restore

  1. After the restore operation completes, restart the computer in Start Windows Normally mode. Active Directory and Certificate Services automatically detect that they have been recovered from a backup. They perform an integrity check and re-index the database.

  2. After you are able to log on to the system, browse Active Directory. Verify that all of the User objects and Group objects that were present in the directory prior to backup are restored. Similarly, verify that files that were members of a File Replication service (FRS) replica set and certificates that were issued by the Certificate Services are present.