CecilD211
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Lost DC need to move exchange
Hello,
Looking for guidance before I tackle and go down the wrong road. I lost my AD controller and now I have a Exchange 2010 Server just hanging out their with no domain. I have the new domain up and going now I need to somehow get the Exchange server and mailboxes there. I understand I will need to join the domain with the server, but after that I'm looking for best process possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Looking for guidance before I tackle and go down the wrong road. I lost my AD controller and now I have a Exchange 2010 Server just hanging out their with no domain. I have the new domain up and going now I need to somehow get the Exchange server and mailboxes there. I understand I will need to join the domain with the server, but after that I'm looking for best process possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Not current. Its history and I'm past the old. Needed cleaned up anyway. Looking to future and how to move the mailboxes
I know you can easily move a file server from one domain to another, but I've never heard of it's being done with an Exchange server. Exchange is so integrated with AD that I'm really not sure it can be done. I also can't find any documentation on how you would do this if it can be done. Unfortunately I don't think you can just re-join the Exchange server to the new domain, even if the domain name is the same.
One way to do this would be to use a 3rd party application - On-Track is one - that can mount an EDB file and restore the contents to an on-line mailbox database. You could then stop all of the Exchange services on the orphaned email server, make a backup copy of the database on an external drive, reconfigure or wipe and reinstall the Exchange server back into the new domain, recreate the mailboxes and then restore the mailbox contents. This is a somewhat time-consuming and tedious process, but it may be the easiest and most secure way to do this without risking loss of data. How many mailboxes are we talking about?
One way to do this would be to use a 3rd party application - On-Track is one - that can mount an EDB file and restore the contents to an on-line mailbox database. You could then stop all of the Exchange services on the orphaned email server, make a backup copy of the database on an external drive, reconfigure or wipe and reinstall the Exchange server back into the new domain, recreate the mailboxes and then restore the mailbox contents. This is a somewhat time-consuming and tedious process, but it may be the easiest and most secure way to do this without risking loss of data. How many mailboxes are we talking about?
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As much as I was hoping not to here this, I highly suspected as much. Its only about 80 boxes, so not so bad. I really appreciate the help.
So have you had a good experience with On-Track?
Thanks a lot
So have you had a good experience with On-Track?
Thanks a lot
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I really appreciate the help and will be heading in that direction. I should have good files the server is still running ok just lost all ad and domain controller.
Thanks again and have a great day.
Thanks again and have a great day.
Do you have the "system State Backup" for old Domain controller ??