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So why does Active Directory Disaster Recovery matter?

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AD is like electricity—no one appreciates it until it stops working. The post lists what an AD outage takes down—auth, Kerberos/NTLM, Group Policy, DNS—and why disaster recovery deserves CIO attention.
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