
Review your current infrastructure for high-availability and recovery

Eliminate inadvertent OU deletion

Protect Domain Administrator accounts

Harden servers and check security complience

Reduce the attack surface

Plan for disaster recovery

Deploy domain controllers and DNS using best practice techniques

Recover from corrupt or missing display specifiers

Use native tools to check the health of your DCs and forest

Observe and check replication metadata

Manage single-master (FSMO) role placement

Recover from FSMO failures

Take a pragmatic approach to RIM master failures

Manage and troubleshoot the File Replication Service (FRS) for SYSVOL replication

Perform authoritative and non-authoritative restores of SYSVOL

Backup the AD and group policy

Restore group policy

Recover from a failed domain controllers and global catalogs

Recover failed domains and forests

Eliminate issues such as lingering objects and USN rollback

Recover deleted objects and attributes

Use Windows Server 2008 snapshots

Perform authoritative restores and recover multi-valued linked attributes

Manage group membership when restoring groups and users