Is it possible to use the Repair Wizard to restore a domain controller with identical hardware in the situation of complete hardware failure?
It is currently not possible to use the Repair Wizard to bring up a Domain Controller on identical hardware using a backup from a DC which is offline due to hardware failure (bare metal restore). Despite being on identical hardware the operating system will contain many unique parameters ( eg. GUID, SID, RID, etc.). Those parameters are defined during the installation of the Operating System. Repair wizard will replace the current DIT file (with transaction logs) and the registry, however replacing the registry taken from another OS (even with similar hardware) may lead to OS instability or it may not function at all. For this reason, we do not recommend using the Repair Wizard in this situation.
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