SYSVOL Handling

If the Enterprise has more than one domain controller, you can choose whether to replicate SYSVOL files and folders to the other controllers as part of the Windows 2000+ System State restore.

Authoritative Restore	Restores SYSVOL files and folders in a primary manner and forces that data to be replicated to the other primary domain controllers.
Non-Authoritative Restore	Restores SYSVOL files and folders locally and allows that data to get updated via the normal replication process. Non-Authoritative Restore is the default.

Attention! When there are replication partners, selecting Authoritative Restore can result in unexpected behavior.

To perform an authoritative restore on the Active Directory, you must run the Microsoft Ntdsutil utility after you have restored the System State data but before you restart the domain controller. For more information about the Ntdsutil utility and authoritative restore, refer to your Microsoft documentation.