Re: USN rollbacks when im****ting VM DC's into isolated VM Lab

ETA is it possible for me to manually up the USN/HWMV on my root DC in the 
lab so whichever child DC's come in, no matter when, they will be 
subordinate in thur replication to the root DC?


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> I've done this on physical machines a million times, with VMware GSX and

> copies of production virtual domain controllers on ****table hard drives,

> and have NEVER had this problem, I had never even heard of a USN
rollback 
> until I started cloning my prod VMDC's into my isolated lab ESX box. 
The 
> VM's that I put on ****table hard drives and brought into the physical 
> machine lab replicated with the root DC even thougth they had a higher 
> number than the root.  Why is this happening here, now?  Is it going to 
> mean that for VM restoration of my forest I have to start with the
newest 
> VM by date and bring in only by gradually decreasing USN/HWMV #'s ?
>