Recovery Manager for AD Forest Edition 10.3.2 - User Guide

Saving a recovery project

To save the changes made to a recovery project

• On the menu bar, select File | Save Project.

Forest Recovery Console saves the project when a user starts the verify settings or the recovery operation. Also, if these operations completed successfully or with some warnings, the project is saved once again.

Protecting recovery project with password

A password is used to secure the recovery project file and it must meet the following password complexity requirements. If the password fails to meet the complexity requirements you will be notified.

• Password must be at least 8 letters long

• Password requires at least one upper-case letter

• Password requires at least one lower-case letter

• Password requires at least one special character

• Password requires at least one digit

The password requirements can be modified via the Set-RMADFEGlobalOptions cmdlet (See the RMAD Management Shell Guide) using the pre-existing Save parameter with two new CommonParameters.

• FRPasswordComplexity

• FRPasswordLength

FRPasswordLength will change the minimum required password. The password length cannot be 0 and will default to 1 if you try to go any lower (password length has no upper limit).

FRPasswordComplexity is set via flags with the following parameters:

• IncludeDigits

• IncludeLowerCase

• IncludeUpperCase

• IncludeSpecialCharacters

• None

To use multiple flags, they must be delimited by a "," (comma) for example:

Set-RMADFEGlobalOptions -Save -FRPasswordComplexity "IncludeDigits,IncludeLowerCase"

Updating a recovery project

It is recommended to regularly update your recovery project so that it reflects the changes occurred in your Active Directory® forest.

To update a recovery project

1. Open the recovery project you want to update.

2. On the menu bar, click Tools | Update Project with Changes in Active Directory.

3. Follow the steps in the wizard to update your project.

Add Standalone Server

Standalone servers can be promoted to domain controllers during the forest recovery process, with or without the Install From Media option.

To add a standalone server to the recovery project

1. Open the recovery project you want to update.

2. On the menu bar, click Tools | Add Standalone Server…

3. Add the name of the computer to use.

4. If necessary modify the Domain name and the Site.