Doubt regarding restore of Enterprise CA

[lukeandmax]

#113240

Hello over there!

I was wondering which was the official way to restore an enterprise CA in case the Domain Contoller crashes.

Let’s assume we have 3 DCs: DC1, DC2 and DC3.
I have installed EnterpriseRootCA on DC2, and regularly backed up either with CA Console and with SystemState.
DC2 crashes… so, how can I restore it?

If I try to install a new enterprise CA on DC3 using same keys, there can be a problem because DC3 recognizes the existing CA in the configuration partition.
So, how can I accomplish a restore? Do I have to manually remove the entire configuration information as reported in the following article “http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889250/en-us” before reinstalling the enterprise CA ?

Thanks so much

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