{"id":519,"date":"2014-11-02T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adsecurity.org\/?p=519"},"modified":"2014-12-07T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T19:21:58","slug":"domain-controller-virtual-cloning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Domain Controller Virtual Cloning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best new features of Windows Server 2012 is virtual cloning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/askpfeplat\/?Redirected=true\">ASKPFE blog<\/a> has an excellent article covering this new feature:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tom Moser here with a post on one of the new ADDS features in Windows Server 2012; Virtual Domain Controller Cloning.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, cloning, snapshotting, copying, or pretty much doing anything but rebuilding from scratch to a virtual domain controller wasn\u2019t just unsupported; it had the potential to be really bad for your directory. Cloning or restoring snapshots of DCs could result in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/875495\">USN rollbacks<\/a> or lingering objects, just to name a couple of problems.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in Windows Server 2012, we now support DC cloning as well as snapshot restoration of domain controllers. With the RTM bits available, I found myself rebuilding my lab and took the opportunity to document the process to demonstrate just how easy it is to clone virtual domain controllers with Windows Server 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Requirements<\/p>\n<p>There are a few base infrastructure requirements to take advantage of DC cloning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The hypervisor must support VM-GenerationID. Hyper-V running on Windows Server 2012 supports this feature. Other virtualization vendors will have the ability to implement this as well, so check with your vendor to see if it\u2019s supported.<\/li>\n<li>The source virtual DC must be running Windows Server 2012.<\/li>\n<li>The PDC emulator role holder must be online and available to the cloned DC <em>and <\/em>must be running Windows Server 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a few other steps and requirements and I\u2019ll take you through those now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/askpfeplat\/archive\/2012\/10\/01\/virtual-domain-controller-cloning-in-windows-server-2012.aspx?Redirected=true\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best new features of Windows Server 2012 is virtual cloning. The ASKPFE blog has an excellent article covering this new feature: Tom Moser here with a post on one of the new ADDS features in Windows Server 2012; Virtual Domain Controller Cloning. Until now, cloning, snapshotting, copying, or pretty much doing anything &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/?p=519\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[287,20,94,101,288,47],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-reference","tag-2012dc","tag-activedirectory","tag-ad2012","tag-domaincontroller","tag-virtualdc","tag-windowsserver2012","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsecurity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}