James, good luck. I successfully used this document to perform a DR. We combined two servers into one, standardizing on the Mailbox Role Server being the one we made sure the name matched. Once it was up they split the roles again.
Don't forget to reset the computer account that your MB Role was installed on. http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Recovering-Exchange-2007-Server-RecoverServer-switch.html I seem to remember being told by PSS once that being on a higher SP is better than being on a lower one when restoring Databases. There are many more saavy than I in this realm, but considering the hour I thought I would get you something that I had used to read through. Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.com<http://www.acts360.com/> P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax From: James Hill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 10:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange server went for a swim, now need to restore As those on the sysadmin list know, our data centre was flooded. I'm now preparing to restore exchange and have a few challenges so I'm hoping the list can help. We had two exchange servers. Exchange01 - Windows Server 2008 SP2, Exchange 2007 with SP2, Client Access Exchange02 - Windows Server 2008 SP2, Exchange 2007 with SP2, Mailbox and Hub Transport(I think). My understanding is that I need to build the servers with the exact names then install Exchange using the recoverserver switch, then restore the databases etc. The problems I have:- 1. I'm not sure which server had the Hub Transport on (I THINK it was the mailbox server). 2. I'm unsure what patch level exchange was at. It had SP2 and a CU but I don't know what CU level it was at. What I have:- 1. System State and mailbox backups. 2. Functioning AD. Thanks for any assistance. James. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
