AZ-800 · Question #314
Your network contains an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain. The domain contains two domain controllers named DC1 and DC2. DC2 runs on a Hyper-V virtual machine. You plan to deploy a…
The correct answer is D. C:\Windows\NTDS. When cloning a Hyper-V-hosted domain controller, both the CustomDCCloneAllowList.xml and DCCloneConfig.xml files must be placed in the DSA (Directory Service Agent) working directory, which is C:\Windows\NTDS by default. This is the same folder that contains NTDS.dit (the…
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Your network contains an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain. The domain contains two domain controllers named DC1 and DC2. DC2 runs on a Hyper-V virtual machine. You plan to deploy a new domain controller by cloning DC2. You need to create the CustomDCCloneAllowList.xml and the DCCloneConfig.xml files for DC2. In which folder should you save the files?
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- AC:\Windows
- BC:\Windows\Setup
- CC:\
- DC:\Windows\NTDS
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When cloning a Hyper-V-hosted domain controller, both the CustomDCCloneAllowList.xml and DCCloneConfig.xml files must be placed in the DSA (Directory Service Agent) working directory, which is C:\Windows\NTDS by default. This is the same folder that contains NTDS.dit (the Active Directory database). During the cloned VM's first boot, the DC cloning process looks for DCCloneConfig.xml in this directory (or optionally in the root of a removable media). Placing the files in C:, C:\Windows, or C:\Windows\Setup is incorrect - the cloning engine does not search those paths and will fail to find the configuration, causing the cloned VM to boot into DSRM (Directory Services Restore Mode) instead of completing promotion.
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