Best practices for restoring a standalone Windows Server 2008 R2 install
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Friday, March 23, 2012 1:56 PM
Hello,
I have a standalone file server running Windows Server 2008 R2 (Workgroup) that I want to reinstall from scratch - but I want to backup the local user account data and most critical - all of the file share permissions data. I know that this registry key stores the shares and permissions data
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares
But I am hoping there is an easy way to backup and then restore the user accounts to the new install so I do not have to recreate them and so my restored file share permission work correctly so I do not have to trudge through each file share and reassign all the permissions.
Ideas?
Cheers!
Bruce
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Friday, March 23, 2012 2:09 PM
Well there is not a native to backup just users and groups then restore them to another server. If you copied permissions then reinstalled those permissions will not be valid anymore anyways.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;250267
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Friday, March 23, 2012 2:15 PM
Well there is not a native to backup just users and groups then restore them to another server. If you copied permissions then reinstalled those permissions will not be valid anymore anyways.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;250267
So - are you telling me that anytime an admin has to rebuild a file server - they have to recreate all the users from scratch and then - after reconnecting all their data drives - redo all permissions for each share manually?
Seriously?
B
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Friday, March 23, 2012 2:31 PM
Sorry I missed that you were running Windows 2008 Server R2.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379531(v=ws.10).aspx
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