> Michael, I think you're looking in the wrong book, try the Admin 
> Guide instead of the DR Guide.  In the 7.4.x Admin Guide, there's a 
> 3-page section in Appendix D that discusses doing authoritative and 
> non-authoritative  restores of AD.  I'm 95% sure it's in the 7.3 
> Guide too, but the steps are really NW version independent.

I will look there, thanks! Sorry, I've been sick the last few days. You 
would think that an AD restore would be in the D/R guide, as the most 
common reason for that type of restore is a D/R situation .. oh, well ...
> 
> I've done them in test environments without a problem (then again, 
> everything always works in test  [Rolling Eyes] ), never done it 
> myself in a live environment, but I've been tertiarily involved at a
> 3000 user site where we had to do one, and it went fine.  I'd 
> recommend opening a ticket with both EMC and MS beforehand if 
that'sfeasible.

Thanks, I'm just preparing for an AD version upgrade we will be doing. In 
case that upgrade goes bad, I need to know how to roll it back. And I'm 
told I would need to do a forest recovery. And that involves an 
authoratative restore of AD. Personally, I *really* hope to *never* have 
to do that, but best to be prepared. 

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