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2026-05-21

Hot Cloning Windows 2012 Domain Controllers? Just Say NO

<p>By now you must have heard that one of the most awesomest and hyper-cool features to make it into the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 operating system is its explicit &#8220;out of the box&#8221; support for Domain Controller virtualization. And, if you haven&#8217;t, head over to <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574118.aspx#BKMK_SafeRestoreArch">Virtualized Domain Controller Architecture</a> and feast your eyes (and brains) on the gory details. This post can wait while you engage in that useful pursuit.</p> <p>Now that you are back with us, yes virtualizing a Windows Active Directory Domain Controller is now not only a &#8220;supported&#8221; operation, it is also (apparently, given the way Microsoft people [&#8230;]</p>

2013-09-02

Questions from VMworld Session

My colleague (Alex Fontana - @AlexFontana_vmw) and I presented the "VAPP5618 - Virtualize Active Directory - The Right Way!" sessions at the 2013 VMworld Conference in San Francisco. The focus of our presentation was ...