Primary Domain Server Crashed. Restoring issue

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I have two servers. One is primary DC, another is ADC. Now the primary DC got crashed. ADC is serving the purpose now.
I need to format the Primary DC server to make it up. After installing the OS, how i need to bring it in domain as Primary DC??
Shall I add as ADC to the running one?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '12 at 01:34

Seize the PDC Emulator role (and any other relevant roles) from the dead domain controller - instructions on this process are here.

Once that's done, you'll probably also want to clean up the dead domain controller's metadata from the domain before trying to re-promote the server again with the fresh OS. Here's the documentation for that process.

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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There are no such thing as an ADC or PDC. They are all multimaster peers. Please read this.

If the DC that crashed held any operations master roles, then you need to transfer them to the other DC. Clean up the metadata for the dead DC by following these steps. Then, reinstall the crashed server and promote it using dcpromo and you're done.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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