I have an Exchnage Server 2003 installed on a VM.
The Exchange is now in production, this is a small comapany. What happen here is that the previous echnage VM died completely and we lost all Data except the mailboxes.
We re-install the exchnage server 2003 in a new fresh VM using the disaster recover switch and we forgot to apply the SP2 on the Windows Server 2003 R2. Anyway the diaster revover went OK and we recovered almost all mails.
The issue is now another one we cannot install the SP2 on Windows server 2003.
We opend another question and we followed advised article that didn't solve the problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948496/en-us
Now we do not have alternative option to create and install another exchnage on the same domain applying this time all the service pack in advance and move the mailbox from this Exchange to the New Exchange server that will still be Exchnage 2003 just on another VM with Windows server 2003 SP2
Do somebody know all required steps to do so?
What I would do is stand up a fresh exchange 2003 install (same organization name) and same patch level as your current one. During the install, there will be the option to let this exchange server be part of your existing org, say yes and follow the prompts. Then, just move the mailboxes from the old one to the new one. Transfers will depend on the size of the mailboxes of course. Make sure that no other connections are on the mailboxes (i.e. outlook) are open on the mailbox before the move or it will fail.
Then, install SP2.