Hello,

Unfortunately we have had an unrecoverable error on our Domain Controller
and we were forced to rebuild, we lost our Entire AD structure. Of course
this means that it has lost the OU orginally setup when CRM was installed.

I was wondering if there was any way to recover this with an install without
losing customisations and Data.

I have backed up the databases and can create a copy of the IIS directories.
Is my best option a complete reinstall then recover the database and copy
over the IIS directories. Will this work or will the SIDs of the new AD not
work with the old data?

Basically I have lost AD and want to get CRM working again.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Regards,
Pete

As you have rebuilt your entire AD then all the sids have been recreated
therefore your crm database has no link to your AD.

This tool may help however I would guess it needs to access your CRM system
to get the data rather than just read the databases directly.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

assuming this is not the answer you are probably faced with extracting your
current crm data into a new crm installation. How much data do you have?



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John O'Donnell
Microsoft CRM MVP
http://www.mscrmfaq.us


"PeteMoyle" <PeteMoyle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thank you for your help.

Unfortunately without AD in place none of the redeployment tools will work.

I have looked into past Threads and everyone keeps saying that the SID would
be different, which is what i assumed. What i fail to see is where this SID
is stored. If it is stored somewhere then surely i can change this to the new
SID.

Can someone please shed some light on where these SIDs are located in the
Databases???

Thank you.

"John O'Donnell" wrote:

You can use ISQL or some other query tool to directly export the data,
then data migration framework to import records. Bit painful but all master
file data can be saved.


"PeteMoyle" wrote: