In one of my previous posts I explain what system state is and how we can use it to backup active directory data. With windows 2008 server Microsoft introduces a new feature called active directory snapshots which can use to backup active directory data. Basically this tools creates a shadow copy of volumes that holds active directory data (Database and logs) using “Volume Shadow Copy…
When I talk to administrators, network engineers about the active directory issues, errors most of the time they know how to install an active directory and how to work with in active directory environment but when I ask about terms like AD database, SYSVOL, System state most of the time I get wrong answer or incomplete answer. Most of the time engineers will not care about these until they go in…
