Guest Cindy B Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Can I do a system restore on a Win 2003 R2 server? I'm guessing the answer is no... and... If not, is there a way to a Windows "fix" like you can with XP? I'm getting some ethernet controller errors, that I'm hoping to able to fix quickly and easily. If both the above answers are no - I'll do some more research... -- Cindy
Guest Anthony Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: No system restore on a server? On Jul 5, 9:26 am, Cindy B <bened...@brainerd.net> wrote: > Can I do a system restore on a Win 2003 R2 server? I'm guessing the answer > is no... and... If not, is there a way to a Windows "fix" like you can > with XP? > > I'm getting some ethernet controller errors, that I'm hoping to able to fix > quickly and easily. If both the above answers are no - I'll do some more > research... > -- > Cindy Cindy, There is no "System Restore" on Windows servers, especially as domain controllers, because Active Directory would be screwed up three ways from Sunday if you could arbitrarily restore older versions. There've been plenty of times where I wished for this feature, but in the end, I think it's for the best. As for controller errors, have you tried updating the drivers/checking physical connectivity? What kind of errors are you seeing?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: No system restore on a server? "Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message news:B2FD0FB5-879B-4963-A9E3-115A273B525D@microsoft.com... > Can I do a system restore on a Win 2003 R2 server? I'm guessing the > answer > is no... and... If not, is there a way to a Windows "fix" like you can > with XP? > > I'm getting some ethernet controller errors, that I'm hoping to able to > fix > quickly and easily. If both the above answers are no - I'll do some more > research... > -- > Cindy I have successfully implemented my home-grown version of System Restore on some SBS2003. It goes like this: - Use the Task Scheduler to back up the registry once each week. - Keep the two most recent versions of the backup files. - When a restore is required, boot the machine with a Bart PE boot CD. - Manually save the current registry files, then put the saved versions in their place. So far I have not observed any ill effects with respect to AD.
Guest Cindy B Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 RE: No system restore on a server? Thanks for both those replies... since I haven't done any registry backups, the homegrown restore won't help this time, but once I'm running clean again, I may just set those reg backups for that purpose in the future. I'm actually getting "Found New Hardware" messages for 2 Ethernet controllers?? When I try to update drivers from IE or CD - it cannot find anything... The network adapters are OK. It's a HP new server with 2003 R-2 Standard. The HP MAngement console doesn't show any hardware problems , but device manager shows "Other devices" - 2 Ethernet controllers - both appear as Not working. I've tried updating drivers, also uninstalled them and rebooted the server and it comes up with the found new hardware again. IE works fine - I can also remote to the server, so the network works. This is a server I'm in the process of setting up to replace our current Primary DC - I was just ready to promote it to a DC status and start the AD replication. I don't want to format, but also don't want to have problems once it assumes the role of primary DC. Any suggestions? thanks for your time and help!! Cindy -- Cindy B "Cindy B" wrote: > Can I do a system restore on a Win 2003 R2 server? I'm guessing the answer > is no... and... If not, is there a way to a Windows "fix" like you can > with XP? > > I'm getting some ethernet controller errors, that I'm hoping to able to fix > quickly and easily. If both the above answers are no - I'll do some more > research... > -- > Cindy
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