Windows Server 2012: Clone Dc

Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Windows Server "8" Beta Virtualized Domain Controller (VDC)

Microsoft Corporation
Published: February 2012

Abstract
This Microsoft Test Lab Guide (TLG) introduces Active Directory Domain Services Virtualized Domain Controllers and provides step-by-step demonstration of new features in Windows Server "8" Beta.

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Contents
Introduction to Test Lab Guides 5
What Is Virtualized Domain Controller? 5
In this guide 6
Test lab overview 6
Hardware and software requirements 6
User account control 7
WindowsPowerShell and remote pasting in Hyper-V virtual machines 7
Steps for deploying a virtualized domain controller 8
Step 1: Create the customized DcCloneConfig.xml file on a source domain controller 8
Step 2: Detect incompatible programs on the source domain controller 10
Step 3: Ensure the PDC emulator runs Windows Server "8" Beta, is not the clone source, and is online 11
Step 4: Authorizethe source domain controller for cloning 12
Step 5: Shut down the source domain controller and copy its disk 13
Step 6: Create a new clone virtual machine using the copied disk 14
Step 7: Start the source and cloned domain controller, then allow cloning to occur 15
Steps for safely restoring a domain controller snapshot 16
Step 1: Take a snapshot of NEWDC1 16
Step 2: Create a new GroupPolicy 17
Step 3: Validate that these new objects replicate to all domain controllers 18
Step 4: Restore the NEWDC1 snapshot and examine the results 18
Appendix 20
Set UAC behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators 20
Pasting text to Hyper-V guests sometimes results in garbled characters 20
Automatically configuring cloned virtual domain controllers 21
Additional Resources22

Introduction to Test Lab Guides
Test Lab Guides (TLGs) allow you to get hands-on experience with new products and technologies using a pre-defined and tested methodology that results in a working configuration. When you use a TLG to create a test lab, instructions tell you what servers to create, how to configure the operating systems and platform services, and how to install and configure...