re: Restoring the SBS GPOs from a Different Server

Sean Kearney1 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:26:36 GMT

Here's an interesting one for you. I had a swing that had gone *Poof* at one point. Netlogon didn't come back online and I had to do a forced promotion. (Not nice!)

So since Netlogon didn't replicate (even though AD did... weird one) I had a blank Netlogon change with no login scripts, policies etc etc. But all the references to the GPO were still in the system (It was quite adamantly complaining about not finding the little pests!) Where is file blah blah? Where where?!

Turned out I was able to just "copy" the policy folders from an older copy from under sysvol. (Original server was hit by a virus and was sick) but AD was ok and the policy files were still there.

Not a perfect situation but it's one of those things you find on your feet when all is breaking loose.

The Official SBS Blog : Restoring the SBS GPOs from a Different Server:

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:06:48 GMT

The Official SBS Blog : Restoring the SBS GPOs from a Different Server: http://blogs.technet.com/sbs