Bare Metal Restore of SBS 2011 Standard
Creation Date: December 07, 2011
Revision Date: December 07, 2011
Product: DS‑Client
Summary
Bare Metal Restore (BMR) is a restore process when the whole machine is being restored. Usually this type of restore is performed after a complete hardware failure or hardware upgrade.
Details
To perform BMR for Windows SBS 2011 (Standard), the target machine you are restoring to must be rebooted in Directory Services Restore Mode. This starts the Windows Domain Controller running Active Directory, which allows the Directory Services to be restored.