Brian Desmond is an Active Directory MVP and a really bright guy. You can trust his blog. I agree with the steps he has listed. I think the steps are documented in the Active Directory Operations Guide (but I haven't checked). It's available for download from microsoft.com. ________________________________ From: Chris Wall [mailto:Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:27 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Lab creation question... http://www.MSExchange.org/ All, I have been searching for the past 3 hours and can not find much on building a test lab from a production 2003 AD environment. I have located the following link: http://briandesmond.com/blog/archive/2003/11/25/251.aspx In NT4 I could just build a BDC and promote it to PDC off the wire and go from there... I can not believe that Microsoft doesn't have a post regarding best practices for doing this with an AD environment. I do not expect someone to tell me how to do this - just looking for references on the web that can support the steps listed in the site I have provided. Regards, Chris ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: michael@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
