You can use Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition to manage the global catalog servers in your Active Directory forest before or after the recovery. For example, you can view which domain controllers currently hold the global catalog server role and manually remove or assign the global catalog server role to the domain controllers you want.
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NOTE: Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition uses the domain controller access credentials to manage the Global Catalog servers. For more details, refer Table 24 in the Settings tab section. |
To manage the global catalog servers
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TIP:To avoid excessive replication traffic, it is recommended to assign one global catalog server role at a time. |
You can use the Forest Recovery Console to view the current Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) role owners in your recovered Active Directory forest and manually change the FSMO role owners if necessary.
During the recovery, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition uses an internal algorithm to automatically assign FSMO roles to the recovered domain controllers. After the recovery completes, you can view the current FSMO role owners and selectively reassign the FSMO roles if necessary.
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NOTE: Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition uses the domain controller access credentials to manage FSMO roles. For more details, refer Table 24 in the Settings tab section. |
To view and assign FSMO role owners
You can use the following elements:
Table 31: Elements you can use
Element | Description |
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Suggest Previous Owners | Allows you to automatically distribute FSMO roles to the domain controllers (owners) that held these roles before the recovery (that is, the owners stored in the recovery project). After you click this button, use the Assign Role To column to view or specify new role owners. If a FSMO role owner no longer exists, the most optimal existing owner will be selected for that role. |
Suggest Optimal Owners | Click this button to automatically distribute FSMO roles to the most optimal existing owners in the recovered Active Directory forest. |
Clear | Click this button to undo the changes you have made in the Assign Role To column. You can only use this button before you apply the changes you have made. |
FSMO Roles | Lists all FSMO roles in the recovered Active Directory forest. |
Current Owners | Lists the current owner of each FSMO role in the recovered Active Directory forest. |
Assign Role To | Use this column to manually select a new owner for the corresponding FSMO role. You can also use this column to view the automatically selected new owners after you click the Suggest Prerecovery Owners or Suggest Optimal Owners button. |
You can use the Forest Recovery Console to view or change DNS client settings for each domain controller in your recovery project. In the DNS client settings, you can define the DNS servers used by the domain controller. You can manage DNS client settings before or after recovery of your project.
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NOTE: Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition uses the domain controller access credentials to manage DNS client settings. |
To view or change assigned DNS servers
Table 32: Elements you can use
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Suggest Previous Settings | Allows you to revert to the DNS client settings the domain controllers in your recovery project used before the recovery (that is, the settings stored in the recovery project). |
Edit | Allows you to change the DNS client settings for the domain controller selected in the list. |
Undo | Allows you to undo the changes you have made. |
Apply | Applies the changes you have made. |
A firewall enabled in your environment may block traffic on ports used by Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition, preventing you from backing up or restoring data. Before you start using Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition, make sure your firewall does not block traffic on ports used by Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition. For more information about these ports, see the Deployment Guide supplied with this release of Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition.
This section provides instructions on how to configure the built-in Windows Firewall enabled on Windows Server 2008-based and Windows Server 2012-based domain controllers in a domain or forest you want to recover, so that Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition could recover that domain or forest. To ensure a successful recovery, create the following Windows Firewall security rules on all Windows Server 2008-based and Windows Server 2012-based domain controllers in the domain or forest (leave the default values for settings not mentioned below):
Rule 1 (inbound)
Rule 2 (inbound)
Rule 3 (inbound)
Rule 4 (inbound)
For more information about RPC dynamic port range, refer to the following Microsoft Support Knowledge Base articles at http://support.microsoft.com:
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