TEST Domain Controller

Can someone tell me what is the best way to create a test
Domain using a copy of a production DC? Steps involved to
bring up the test DC in the production domain, then bring
that into the test LAN and then replicate and take it out
of production after test DC is up and functional....

Thanks for any suggestions :::

Fluffy Bastard

"Fluffy Bastard" <> wrote in message
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> # Host-Name Conflict: file://c:\temp\141159.htm (8/16/2004 2:27:30 PM) #
> Can someone tell me what is the best way to create a test
> Domain using a copy of a production DC? Steps involved to
> bring up the test DC in the production domain, then bring
> that into the test LAN and then replicate and take it out
> of production after test DC is up and functional....
>
> Thanks for any suggestions :::
>
>

ur not asking for much ru?

kpg

kpg wrote:

> "Fluffy Bastard" <> wrote in message
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>># Host-Name Conflict: file://c:\temp\141159.htm (8/16/2004 2:27:30 PM) #
>>Can someone tell me what is the best way to create a test
>>Domain using a copy of a production DC? Steps involved to
>>bring up the test DC in the production domain, then bring
>>that into the test LAN and then replicate and take it out
>>of production after test DC is up and functional....
>>
>>Thanks for any suggestions :::
>>
>>

Sure! Be right over. How do you want to be billed?

JaR
Pro Thug

JaR

"Fluffy Bastard" wibbled

>Can someone tell me what is the best way to create a test
>Domain using a copy of a production DC? Steps involved to
>bring up the test DC in the production domain, then bring
>that into the test LAN and then replicate and take it out
>of production after test DC is up and functional....
>

The best way, if you don't know how to do it, is to play
with it. Find out what works and what doesn't, etc.
If you want step-by-step spoon-feeding, you have 2 options
1. Pay a consultant lots of money
2. Decide what your requirements are (eg. which OS), and
learn how to use google, KB, etc.

Andy Foster

>If you want step-by-step spoon-feeding, you have 2 options
>1. Pay a consultant lots of money
>2. Decide what your requirements are (eg. which OS), and
>learn how to use google, KB, etc.

yet so many choose the first option.....

Kline Sphere (Chalk) MCNGP #3

The Poster Formerly Known as Kline Sphere

On Aug 17, 2004 "The Poster Formerly Known as Kline Sphere" blathered:

> yet so many choose the first option.....

....God bless 'em!

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MCNGP #36, MCSA, A+, Net+, i-Net+
I'm TechGeekPro, and I approved this post.

TechGeekPro

For a 'Fluffy Bastard' like him, I would go Pay Pal only. Even cash can be a
bit fluffy.

"JaR" <> wrote in message
news:...
> kpg wrote:
>
>> "Fluffy Bastard" <> wrote in message
>> news:738f01c483bb$c8b1e040$...
>>
>>># Host-Name Conflict: file://c:\temp\141159.htm (8/16/2004 2:27:30 PM) #
>>>Can someone tell me what is the best way to create a test
>>>Domain using a copy of a production DC? Steps involved to
>>>bring up the test DC in the production domain, then bring
>>>that into the test LAN and then replicate and take it out
>>>of production after test DC is up and functional....
>>>
>>>Thanks for any suggestions :::
>>>
>>>
>
> Sure! Be right over. How do you want to be billed?
>
> JaR
> Pro Thug

Dragon

TechGeekPro wrote:

> On Aug 17, 2004 "The Poster Formerly Known as Kline Sphere" blathered:
>
>
>>yet so many choose the first option.....
>
>
> ...God bless 'em!
>

....and their wallets.

JaR
Mercenary Thug

JaR

babbling on and on again "=?Utf-8?B?SVI4VGVjaA==?="
<> spewed in
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>
> First off, is your domain AD2000 mixed, 2000 native or AD2003 (mixed,
> 2000 compat or 2003 native)? Details maybe helpful. At any rate try
> looking at Microsoft and look up GPMC (Group Policy Management Console
> -SP1? maybe 2 is out). The GPMC was built with this in mind and
> includes a mtedit.exe utility so you can do some XML-type transforms
> of the AD objects (ie. GPOs) and hammer them into your (hopefully
> isolated) test domain. There was even a MS webcast on this very issue.
> Search the archived webcasts for GPMC. Good luck.

WHAT? GMPC is designed to create a parrallel duplicate domain for testing?
And here I thought it was limited to Group Policy stuff...While the tool
would be extremely useful for group policy migration there may be some
items it does not bring across...

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Neil MCNGP #30
Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather-who died peacefully in
his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Neil

Some things will be unique to the domain and can not be brought across and
something have to under go a XML tranform.
Let's babble on but the web cast will explain it better.

"Neil" wrote:

> babbling on and on again "=?Utf-8?B?SVI4VGVjaA==?="
> <> spewed in
> news:33EE7271-9D09-489F-B074-:
>
> >
> > First off, is your domain AD2000 mixed, 2000 native or AD2003 (mixed,
> > 2000 compat or 2003 native)? Details maybe helpful. At any rate try
> > looking at Microsoft and look up GPMC (Group Policy Management Console
> > -SP1? maybe 2 is out). The GPMC was built with this in mind and
> > includes a mtedit.exe utility so you can do some XML-type transforms
> > of the AD objects (ie. GPOs) and hammer them into your (hopefully
> > isolated) test domain. There was even a MS webcast on this very issue.
> > Search the archived webcasts for GPMC. Good luck.
>
> WHAT? GMPC is designed to create a parrallel duplicate domain for testing?
> And here I thought it was limited to Group Policy stuff...While the tool
> would be extremely useful for group policy migration there may be some
> items it does not bring across...
>
> --
> Neil MCNGP #30
> Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
>
> When I die, I want to die like my grandfather-who died peacefully in
> his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
>

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