Active Directory® for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Technical Reference

Chapter 15. Disaster Recovery

Active Directory directory service is perhaps the most critical network service that you will deploy on your network. If the Active Directory infrastructure fails, the users on your network will be extremely limited in what they can do. Almost all network services on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network depend on users authenticating to Active Directory before they access any network resource. Because Active Directory is critical, you must apply at least the same level of preparation to Active Directory disaster prevention and recovery as you do to any other network resources. It is essential when you deploy Windows Server 2003 Active Directory that you prepare for the protection of the Active Directory database ...