Hi,
I'm currently planning a recovery strategy for a single forest, single domain environment.
There are 4 x 2012 R2 domain controllers and all FSMO roles are held by a single DC.
In the event of a catastrophic failure resulting in all domain controllers across all sites being destroyed, would be acceptable to restore the FSMO role holder from backup?
All I can find on the matter, is the paragraph;
"While it is not recommended to restore an operations master role holder in the interest of simplicity, some organizations may choose to restore one for other advantages. For example restoring the RID master may help prevent problems with managing RIDs during the recovery."
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757662(v=ws.10).aspx
If all the roles are held by one DC, I'd say that removes any complexity from it and restoring this DC would be the way to go in the event of a total failure.
Is there any other reason not to restore the FSMO role holder in this case?
Thanks in advance!
M