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rboarman
Asked: 2012-02-01 11:10:04 +0800 CST

Accidental sysprep of AD machine

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Major screw-up here and I need to find out how much trouble I am in.

I have an AD machine that is running Server 2008 R2, hyperv, DHCP and DNS. On the hyperv machine, I have a backup AD instance running along with a handfull of other server 2008 instances.

One of the instances is running Acronis backup which has a current (last night) backup of the hyperv machine.

Sysprep was run on the hyperv machine instead of one of the instances.

What did I lose and what are the basic steps to get back the environment?

windows-server-2008 active-directory sysprep

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you have a good backup, then try doing a restore of the system state. Most of what sysprep does is related to that.

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  2. Is this for a work environment? Because you should be able to replace a smoked VM host without having to depend on what's in it. If the thing was just running AD/DNS/DHCP, then it would be easiest to migrate all of the guests off of it, and just do a plain new install followed by a DCPromo, and then rebuild your DHCP server, hopefully it wasn't too complicated.

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