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Virtualizing domain controllers - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Management and Implementation
Virtualizing domain controllers
- One of the things we have always been able to do was to take a member server or a client operating system inside of networks that were members of the domain using something like NewSID or a SID generation tool. We could always clone that machine for purposes of deployment which made things very, very, simple. It made things very, very, quick in our environment. But one of the things that we've never been able to do is actually to clone a domain controller. Because of the GUID of the domain controllers, the SID's of the domain controllers, not being able to rename the domain controllers once the domain controller is created. So we have never been able to clone a domain controller until now. In Server 2012, one of the things that we have the ability of doing now is actually cloning a domain controller to make for rapid deployments of domain controllers in our environment. In this session, we're going to be looking at what is cloning and an overview of what cloning is. We'll look at…
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