Help with AD schema extensions for Vista wireless

Hello,

I am planning for add the Vista wirless AD scema extensions. I am new to
this and am hoping for a little feedback. We have a server 2003 R2 domain. I
have the white papaer on making this change and it seems pretty straight
forward. One problem is I do not have the luxary of a testing environment.
The second is I'm still a little foggy on a disaster recovery plan. It seems
that you can not restore schema info but only disable additions you make, is
this true? Also, if anyone has done this before please lend a helping hand.
Thanks in advance.

I know nothing about this particular extension, but as a general comment if
you're going to do anything that might break a server, you need two
trustworthy backups, and these backups must include the system-state info.

I prefer to also have an image of the system partition made with Acronis,
ghost, etc. This need not be entirely current, so long as it will serve to
restore a tape backup from. That way you can get it back up and running much
more quickly than having to start from bare metal.

"lca1630" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am planning for add the Vista wirless AD scema extensions. I am new to
> this and am hoping for a little feedback. We have a server 2003 R2 domain. I
> have the white papaer on making this change and it seems pretty straight
> forward. One problem is I do not have the luxary of a testing environment.
> The second is I'm still a little foggy on a disaster recovery plan. It seems
> that you can not restore schema info but only disable additions you make, is
> this true? Also, if anyone has done this before please lend a helping hand.
> Thanks in advance.
>

It's true that schema extensions can't be undone. To my knowledge, no schema
extension has ever broken anyone's forest.

--
Steve Riley
steve.riley@microsoft.com
http://blogs.technet.com/steriley
http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com



"lca1630" <lca1630@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am planning for add the Vista wirless AD scema extensions. I am new to
> this and am hoping for a little feedback. We have a server 2003 R2 domain.
> I
> have the white papaer on making this change and it seems pretty straight
> forward. One problem is I do not have the luxary of a testing environment.
> The second is I'm still a little foggy on a disaster recovery plan. It
> seems
> that you can not restore schema info but only disable additions you make,
> is
> this true? Also, if anyone has done this before please lend a helping
> hand.
> Thanks in advance.
>