Re: Restore Exchange server from copy

From: Dan Townsend [MSFT] (dtown_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:50:21 -0600

NOTE: Microsoft recommends that you use the Legacydn tool only in a lab
environment. The tool only works in a single domain controller environment. 

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"Mcdonaldb" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Or just use legacydn to change the Org and admin group instead of
reinstalling exchange.
>
>      ----- Dan Townsend [MSFT] wrote: -----
>
>      Well you stated you lost AD.
>
>      Did you setup the new "AD" with the same Org and Admin Group?  You
have to.
>      If not you will get a 1088 (App log while trying to mount store) and
need to
>      remove Exchange again and rebuild it with the proper names..
>
>      If so you should be able to put the files in place of the new blank
database
>      and mount them (make sure MDBDATA only has the 2 EDBs and 2 STMs) and
then
>      create accounts and use mbconn or connect the accounts manually.
>
>      -- 
>      Hope that helps,
>      Dan Townsend
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>      "Ian Murphy" <ian@integra-xp.com> wrote in message
>      news:1g49y5g210f6s$.1oipv592r0b3y.dlg@40tude.net...
>      >> In my dev environment I had Exchange server 2003 running for a
while,
>      quite
>      > a while. Last week I finally killed the machine doing something or
other
>      > (thousands of dcom errors and problems with WMI, networking, etc).
>      >> To cut a long story short I ended up having to rebuild the
machine, the
>      > only domain controller and reinstall Exchange.
>      >> I have a copy of the Exchange directories which I took before
rebuilding.
>      >> I've never had to restore in this fashion before and after much
>      > investigation on various web pages I get the impression that I'm
screwed.
>      >> In various places I have seen mention of building a new forest on
another
>      > server and restoring the db there. I am doubtful about this as I
was
>      unable
>      > to mount these files after rebuilding the server so it seems
unlikely I
>      > will be able to restore them on a another forest.
>      >> Does anyone know of a link to a page that explains how this works.
I can't
>      > believe that an operation so simple can be so complex.
>      >> Ian Murphy

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