Now you see, that's true as far as it goes - but it really doesn't go far enough.
/recoverserver reinstall's Exchange with all the same INSTALLATION OPTIONS, but doesn't recover the configuration settings, thus providing an Exchange administrator with a false sense of security. There are a metric buttload (technical measurement, there) of registry and XML file configurations in Exchange 2007 that didn't exist in Exchange 2003 and that you are required to have for proper configuration restoration. CAS is the worst, because you need another buttload of IIS/Metabase settings. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: KevinM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removal of Exchange 2007 for reinstall Setup /recoverserver will reinstall Exchange with all of the previous settings. Rebuild the box, and then run setup /recoverserver from the Exchange installation folder and you are good to go. No need to uninstall Exchange if you think that the OS is the issue. From: Bruce Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removal of Exchange 2007 for reinstall The goal is to have a known good installation of both Win2k8 and Exchange 2k7. I'm afraid when we power cycled the box several times that we might have corrupted the OS. So your suggestion would be to run the repair from the setup disk? How would that affect the Exchange install? From: KevinM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removal of Exchange 2007 for reinstall What is your goal of uninstalling the server? Could you meet that goal by creating a new server with the same name by running setup /recover server ? From: Bruce Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Removal of Exchange 2007 for reinstall Thus far our migration to Exchange 2007 from Exchange 2003 has not been a simple one. We are going to be running Exchange 2007 on Win2k8. After installing Win2k8 we had some issues with the Exchange 2k7 installation where the box had to be hard powered off several times and now things do not seem quite right. We would like to uninstall Exchange 2k7, remove the Win2k8 server from the domain, then format and reinstall now that we know what the problem was(hardware error.) My question to the list is, will the uninstall of Exchange 2k7 adversely affect our current Exchange 2k3 infrastructure? Any info would be great. Bruce Henderson Network Administrator Concordia University t 503-493-6481 2811 NE Holman Street Portland, OR 97211 <http://www.cu-portland.edu> www.cu-portland.edu ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
