Oops. Big oops. Pls hulp.

[MCManiac52]

Server 2012R2. I just accidentally deleted all my DNS service information. Yeah, oops. This server is the only one in the domain so it's the primary domain controller, dhcp, dns and everything else, how do i get all the dns records back. I've spent the past 3 hours googling and nothing worked, i figured i'd just reinstall AD and it would do it, which is correct but i will loose all my AD configs as it's the only domain controller, this would be fine i didn't have a butt ton of group policies. Anyone know what to do? Or am i screwed..

[♠FlamieMeister♠]

I think your screwed.

[MCManiac52]

1 minute ago, ♠FlamieMeister♠ said:

I think your screwed.

balls.

[brwainer]

Does this article help? http://networkerslog.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-rebuild-ad-integrated-dns.html?m=1

 

I found it, and similar ones, by searching "rebuild dns ad"

[MCManiac52]

4 minutes ago, brwainer said:

Does this article help? http://networkerslog.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-rebuild-ad-integrated-dns.html?m=1

 

I found it, and similar ones, by searching "rebuild dns ad"

It would, however I have no copy of what records should be there and don't have any files to look at them from.

[MCManiac52]

Okay problem solved. I managed to create a VM server and manually add the records needed to join a computer to the domain. Now added the VM as a domain controller and going to re configure the main machine.

[samiscool51]

damit cage! you and your oops!

you are screwed!

[Sprawlie]

Backups, Backups, backups

 

whenever making big changes like this, backup first.

if you're running VM's? Snapshot first

 

simply put

 

Anytime you are about to do anything potentially destructive to data, you should backup first