Recover Exchange 2003 Mailboxes to Different Exchange 2003 Server
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I will try and keep it simple. We had two Exchange 2003 Standard Edition servers running on Windows Server 2003 (Server A and Server B). Server A crashed and we were not able to recover the full server with our backup software yet. However, my question is if it is possible to use the database backup that belonged to server A and recover the mailboxes to server B. Server B is a member of the same Exchange organization as A. If more information or clarification is needed, please let me know.
I will try and keep it simple. We had two Exchange 2003 Standard Edition servers running on Windows Server 2003 (Server A and Server B). Server A crashed and we were not able to recover the full server with our backup software yet. However, my question is if it is possible to use the database backup that belonged to server A and recover the mailboxes to server B. Server B is a member of the same Exchange organization as A. If more information or clarification is needed, please let me know.
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Amit,
Thank you for the article link, it was a good read! Ultimately, the solution route we took was to mount the failed server's database onto the surviving server and re-home the user mailboxes. There was actually more work along the way to get us to that point, but it was not difficult. To Simon's point, we did have to do some AD cleanup for the failed server
Thank you for the article link, it was a good read! Ultimately, the solution route we took was to mount the failed server's database onto the surviving server and re-home the user mailboxes. There was actually more work along the way to get us to that point, but it was not difficult. To Simon's point, we did have to do some AD cleanup for the failed server
If you have the databases that is all you need.
RESET (NOT DELETE) the computer account.
Rebuild Windows 2003 to the same patch level as it was before.
Install Exchange 2003 from the command line with the /serverrecovery switch.
Then install SP2. You should then be able to mount the original databases back in the server.
By doing it that way, there is no heavy clean-up of the domain to do to remove the failed server.
Simon.