this description from microsoft could help you further:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/
tips/Recover.asp

Actualy, looks like such restoration is a project per se
and due to diversity of possible sceanrii the restore propcess 
is not eligible for practical testing.
Apparently they have no real concept for restore, 
the mix of AD with OS 
and diverse dependencies are real pain.

Regards
juraj



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Von: Murray, Jim [mailto:JMurray AT LIBERTY-BANK DOT COM]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 04. Juni 2003 21:48
An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Betreff: Restore of Active Directory


I was asked to come up with an answer to the question 'How would you restore
Active Directory as a whole not just a Domain Controller'.  Any thoughts,
ideas or best practices?

Jim Murray
Senior Systems Engineer
Liberty Bank
860.638.2919
jmurray AT liberty-bank DOT com
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