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Exchange 5.5 reinstall
We are running NT Server 4 BackOffice 4.5 with Exchange 5.5 SP4
About a week ago during an IE upgrade reboot the OS failed to reinitialize all the services. An error which proved unrecoverable. I have added a second HD to the system, set it as the active partition, and reinstalled the OS on it.
I checked all the MS support documents for restoring the exchange data stores, but they assume you have an online backup and I do not. What I DO have is the files as they were the last time the server was stopped.
I tried simply reinstalling Exchange with the same SP's and Hotfix's and then simply replacing the data stores with the ones from the previous installation, but that has proved unsuccessful.
It is frustrating because I have an uncorrupted copy of all the previous stores, but can not get the new installation to read them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Jeff
About a week ago during an IE upgrade reboot the OS failed to reinitialize all the services. An error which proved unrecoverable. I have added a second HD to the system, set it as the active partition, and reinstalled the OS on it.
I checked all the MS support documents for restoring the exchange data stores, but they assume you have an online backup and I do not. What I DO have is the files as they were the last time the server was stopped.
I tried simply reinstalling Exchange with the same SP's and Hotfix's and then simply replacing the data stores with the ones from the previous installation, but that has proved unsuccessful.
It is frustrating because I have an uncorrupted copy of all the previous stores, but can not get the new installation to read them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Jeff
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First you might try completely removing your Exchange 5.5
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/259158
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/259158
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Maharajkp:
The article you mentioned: "How to Move Exchange Server to a New Computer That Has the Same Name" says it does not apply to a computer that is a domain controller. We have only one server running on our system. It is running Exchange, IIS, etc ... as well as being the domain master with user accounts and file shares.
How does this affect me?
The article you mentioned: "How to Move Exchange Server to a New Computer That Has the Same Name" says it does not apply to a computer that is a domain controller. We have only one server running on our system. It is running Exchange, IIS, etc ... as well as being the domain master with user accounts and file shares.
How does this affect me?
I listed the necessary steps to recover your exchange 5.5 server from the offline copy. I used that process many times when I was a consultant and can think of only one time I couldn't get the data fully restored.
You can completely remove Exchange 5.5 and
Reinstall on same Server, as if it is a new hardware ... Follow the steps on "restoring Offline Backup"
Reinstall on same Server, as if it is a new hardware ... Follow the steps on "restoring Offline Backup"
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When I try to run: "isinteg -patch" I get an insufficient access rights error. I never changed the service account before, and I have not done so on the reinstallation either.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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Okay, I got isinteg to run successfully, but I am still getting error1276 when starting the Information Stores.
How to Move Exchange Server to a New Computer That Has the Same Name
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/155216