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This guide contains recommendations for recovering an Active Directory forest if a forest-wide failure renders all domain controllers (DCs) in the forest incapable of functioning normally. The steps it contains serve as a template for your forest recovery plan, which you can customize for your environment. These steps apply to DCs that run Microsoft Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2, and 2012 operating systems.
Steps outlined in this guide
- AD Forest Recovery - Prerequisites
- AD Forest Recovery - Devise a custom forest recovery plan
- AD Forest Recovery - Steps to restore the forest
- AD Forest Recovery - Identify the problem
- AD Forest Recovery - Determine how to recover
- AD Forest Recovery - Perform initial recovery
- AD Forest Recovery - Procedures
- AD Forest Recovery - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- AD Forest Recovery - Recover a single domain within a multidomain forest
- AD Forest Recovery - Redeploy remaining DCs
- AD Forest Recovery - Virtualization
- AD Forest Recovery - Cleanup
Legacy guidance
You can find guidance for older operating systems in the Windows Server archive.