Re: reinstallation for a crashed SMS server

From: Dirk (Dirk_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:11:04 -0700

Thanks Kim. One quick question.

I can see the usefullness of SMS recovery expert and SMS recovery wizard.
My SMS 2003 server was a testing environment and the data on the server and
the SMS configuration was not critical. Is it still better to bring the
server back online using the SMS recovery expert or can the server be brought
back online by a fresh install using the old name of the server?

"Kim Oppalfens" wrote:

>
> Inline *
> In article <098B1F04-5AD7-42A8-ADEF-224A963BFCC9@microsoft.com>,
> Dirk@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> > I had a single SMS sever test environment. The SMS server was used for
> > testing and had not critical production data. I would like to rebuild the
> > test environment from sracth. The server name was xyz1.domain1.com in a
> > Active Directory domain. The SMS server had all the SMS roles assigned to it.
> >
> > question:
> > 1. When rebuilding the server, do I need to make the sechema updates again.
>
> * Nope, once the schema is updated it is updated, no need to do it
> again.
> >
> > 2. Can the server have the same xyz1.domain1.com name or will there be
> > issues with this. Or would it be better to use a new server name, if so why?
>
> It needs to have the same name, a lot of the communication is based on
> this name. IIRC changing the name of an sms server is not supported, so
> it would most likely not be a good idea to complicated a recovery even
> further with a name change.
> >
> > 3. Are there any gotchas or any thing special I need to do, since the SMS
> > server will be buily in the same Active Directory forest?
> If you follow the recovery expert and use the recovery wizard you should
> be fine. A recovery is usually done in the same forest as the original
> so the recovery expert should tell you about any necessary steps.
>
> Kim Oppalfens
> >
> > thank you in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Check out the SMS Technical FAQ:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/techfaq/default
> ..mspx
>

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