Restoring SYSTEM STATE

According to Microsoft - no.

To be more specific, you can't recover directly to another machine. Using NTBackup you can backup and then restore it to disk as files (at least some AD configurations, I'm not sure if everything can be restored in a file format). It's something Microsoft alows and also suggests in some procedures.

But you can't recover to disk with Networker, there's an RFE opened for it, so let's wait.

Well, it´s just something I found last week and would like to share. I don't think that this is what you would need.

Do you know LGTpa/LGTsc for that RFE? Also, once you brought back data to disk, how do you complete recover with MS? I could not find that on their support site, but perhaps I missed right Q article.

LGTpa37135 (as far as they told me, I wasn't able to confirm that)

I'm not sure about the complete recovery process, it is something my Windows team keep telling me everytime. One thing I remember they told me was that you could burn this data to a CD, and then use this to install a new domain controller, then you would not need to wait for all the data to be sycronized between the dc's.

As I told, I don't believe you can do this to every object on system state, but as I even didn't know about this AD trick, maybe there's something else in this crazy Windows world