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Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition

Full Forest Recovery for Active Directory

Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition quickly restores your entire domain or forest in the event of a major disaster or AD corruption. By selecting unaffected backups, quarantining the damaged environment and automating all the manual steps required to facilitate the recovery, Forest Edition greatly reduces downtime to save your organization lost productivity and lost revenue.

By leveraging the backups from Recovery Manager for Active Directory, the Forest Edition extends the value by simplifying the requirements for recovering a domain or forest in the event of a major disaster. This process is closely aligned with Microsoft’s native forest recovery approach and provides the option to restore some DCs from backup and others through demoting and re-promoting them with DCPromo.

  • Automation of Manual Tasks – Automate manual steps to save vast amounts of time and eliminate the risk of human error. Using native tools to recover a domain or forest requires numerous and lengthy manual steps repeated on each domain controller. This process results in a very slow and tedious recovery that’s prone to human error.
  • Flexible Recovery Pacing – Create pauses in your recovery project that allow you to automatically suspend the recovery of one or more DCs, and then manually resume the recovery of these DCs from the point where they were paused. This enables you to perform important tasks that might be required outside of the product.
  • Remote Quarantine – Automatically and remotely quarantine corrupt domain controllers so they won’t replicate with the newly restored environment.
  • Real-Time Recovery Planning – Generate and view a detailed recovery process roadmap for the current recovery project. This provides an overview of every recovery stage and operation, allowing you to gain a better understanding and more control of every aspect of the operation.
  • Simultaneous System Recovery – Restore all domain controllers in your domain or forest simultaneously from one centralized location. This eliminates the need to manually interface with each domain controller separately, saving a significant amount of time and effort.
  • Virtual Lab Environment – Create a virtual lab environment with data from your production environment to more accurately and safely simulate testing prior to making changes in the production domain/forest. Existing computer collections can be used for the virtual lab environment.
  • Consolidated Backups – Consolidate backups created by different Recovery Manager Console instances to speed time to resolution.
  • Collecting Diagnostic Data – Use the Forest Recovery Console as a central location for collecting diagnostic data from all domain controllers in your recovery project. You no longer have to interface with each domain controller in the project individually to collect logs and other Active Directory data to establish the cause of a recovery failure or why Active Directory is not functioning properly.

Before installing Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:

Processor1.4 GHz or faster Pentium or equivalent, x86 or x64 architecture
Memory512 MB plus 0.5 MB per 1000 objects selected in the Recovery Manager for Active Directory user interface due to the requirements of the Microsoft Extensible Database Engine (ESE). This requirement also applies when you open a directory folder in the Recovery Manager for Active Directory user interface.
Hard Disk Spacex86-based computer
      Full installation, including the prerequisite software: 2.0 Gb of free disk space
      In case all the prerequisite software is already installed: 230 Mb of free disk space

x64-based computer
      Full installation, including the prerequisite software: 2.7 Gb of free disk space
      In case all the prerequisite software is already installed: 260 Mb of free disk space

Note: Additional storage space is required for a backup repository, at least the size of the backed-up Active Directory database file (Ntds.dit) and the SYSVOL folder plus 40 MB for the transaction log files.
MonitorSVGA at 1024 x 768 or higher
Operating SystemYou can install Recovery Manager Forest Edition on a computer running one of the following operating systems (both x86 and x64 platforms are supported):
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 1
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2
 —Microsoft Windows 7 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 1
 —Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 2
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2
 —Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3

You can use Recovery Manager Forest Edition to perform backup, restore, compare, and clone operations on computers running any of the following operating systems (both x86 and x64 platforms are supported):
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (including Server Core installation)
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2 (including Server Core installation)
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 2
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2003 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2
Note:
 —On a computer running Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, you can only perform backup, restore, and compare operations.
 —Recovery Manager Forest Edition does not support the recovery of Windows 2000 Server-based domain controllers when recovering an Active Directory forest or specific domains.
Prerequisite Software—Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.0
—Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1
—Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5
—Microsoft Management Console version 3.0
—Microsoft Windows PowerShell version 1.0
—Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
(Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Web, or Developer Edition)
—Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types for SQL Server 2008 R2
—Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 with Service Pack 2
—Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client
—Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Shared Management Objects
—Microsoft Windows Imaging Component (only required for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2003 R2)

Note: If any prerequisite software is not installed, the Setup program will automatically install it for you before installing Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition. If the prerequisite software to be installed is missing from this release package, it will be automatically downloaded. For a list of prerequisite software included in this release package, see Getting Started later in this document.
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting ServicesTo display reports, Recovery Manager for Active Directory can integrate with
—Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008
Password and SIDHistory
Recoverability Tool		This tool can only be used in an environment where Microsoft's Active Directory Recycle Bin is not enabled.
Quest ChangeAuditor for Active DirectoryTo provide information on who modified particular Active Directory objects, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition can integrate with the following versions of ChangeAuditor for Active Directory:
5.1, 5.0, 4.9, 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, and 4.5
Creating virtual snapshots of physical computersRecovery Manager Forest Edition can create virtual snapshots of physical computers running one of the following operating systems (both x86 and x64 platforms are supported):

—Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
—Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with or without any Service Pack
—Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 with or without any Service Pack
—Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with or without any Service Pack

Forest Recovery Agent

Before installing Forest Recovery Agent on a domain controller, ensure the domain controller meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:

Processor450 MHz or higher Intel Pentium-compatible CPU
Memory256 MB (1 GB recommended)
Hard Disk Space50 MB or more
Operating SystemYour computer must run one of the following operating systems (both x86 and x64 platforms are supported):
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 2
 —Microsoft Windows Server 2003 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2
Prerequisite SoftwareMicrosoft Windows Installer 4.5 or later must be installed.

Language Supported:

  • US English

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Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition

Recovery Manager features an intuitive interface and empowers you to recover from inadvertent deletions or changes to your AD data in minutes. With its remote, online, granular restore capability, you can recover selected objects and individual attributes without taking AD offline.
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