On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:24 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can't say for sure what caused it, but somewhere during this process > about 10 out of the 70+/- GPOs got fubared, and I had to recover them > - something I've never had to do before. Thank all the gods (and > decent planning!) that I had snapshot backups of the DC holding all of > the FSMO roles, and could mount the VMDK and pull out the sysvol > directory and copy them back from the Friday night backup. Really. I have a scheduled task that backs up all GPOs to a central share on the last day of the month. I always assumed that if I needed to, I could import a GPO from there, if I needed to restore some settings.That seems easier than having to mount a copy of the sysvol and copy them out of that. > It was not a good time last week. Sounds like! > - Or the phase of the moon and a lack of chicken blood. This. :-)
