AD-Recovery

This guide contains best-practice recommendations for recovering an Active Directory forest if 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 particular environment. These steps apply to DCs that run Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, and 2003 operating systems.