Exchange: Building an Exchange Recovery Server
There are benefits of creating an Exchange Recovery Server such as validating backups, running Exchange database utilities to test for corruptions or inconsistencies and performing offline restores without impacting the performance of your production Exchange Server. One issue that you may encounter when rebuilding an Exchange Recovery Server is if your Exchange Organization was a product of a 5.5 migration. If so, you will not be able to mount the database on the recovery server. This is due to the descrepancy in the legacydn from your restore server and your production server.
Method 1:
1. Create new forest new domain name, give new hostname
2. Install AD
3. Install Exchange, make sure your Exchange org name is the same as your production org name
4. Make sure servers are patched exactly the same or mounting will fail.
4. Make sure all DB locations, log path partions are the same.
If your 2003 was a product of a 5.5 migration, than mounting will fail because the legacydn of the restore server does not match the legacydn of the production server.
1. Open command prompt. Type ldifde -f c:\exchange.txt -d "CN=Microso ft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=fabrikom,DC=com" -p subtree
2. Open the file Exchange.txt. In the text file search for "First Administrative Org" There may be up to 25 entries. When you encounter the first match you need to locate it in adsiedit and change First Administrative Org to the Exchange org name of your production Exchange.
3. Once you have found the first match. Open run box and enter adsiedit.msc (From windows support tools)
4. If you're familiar with adsiedit you need to go to your Exchange Configuration Container à Services à Microsoft Exchange. You should see your org name. Most of the matches will be within this subfolder. Find the match and change the legacydn of your restore server (first admin org) to match the orginal org name. So basically anywhere you see "First Administrative Org" you need to change to your production org name. If you do not do this mounting will fail.
James Chong (MVP)
MCITP | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+
Security+, Project+, ITIL
msexchangetips.blogspot.com
How useful was this article? Want to see a tip not listed? Please leave a comment.
Method 1:
1. Create new forest new domain name, give new hostname
2. Install AD
3. Install Exchange, make sure your Exchange org name is the same as your production org name
4. Make sure servers are patched exactly the same or mounting will fail.
4. Make sure all DB locations, log path partions are the same.
If your 2003 was a product of a 5.5 migration, than mounting will fail because the legacydn of the restore server does not match the legacydn of the production server.
1. Open command prompt. Type ldifde -f c:\exchange.txt -d "CN=Microso ft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=fabrikom,DC=com" -p subtree
2. Open the file Exchange.txt. In the text file search for "First Administrative Org" There may be up to 25 entries. When you encounter the first match you need to locate it in adsiedit and change First Administrative Org to the Exchange org name of your production Exchange.
3. Once you have found the first match. Open run box and enter adsiedit.msc (From windows support tools)
4. If you're familiar with adsiedit you need to go to your Exchange Configuration Container à Services à Microsoft Exchange. You should see your org name. Most of the matches will be within this subfolder. Find the match and change the legacydn of your restore server (first admin org) to match the orginal org name. So basically anywhere you see "First Administrative Org" you need to change to your production org name. If you do not do this mounting will fail.
James Chong (MVP)
MCITP | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+
Security+, Project+, ITIL
msexchangetips.blogspot.com
How useful was this article? Want to see a tip not listed? Please leave a comment.
posted by jamestechman at 9:35 AM
3 Comments:
Hi James,
can i recovery exchange offline?
because my exchange server was broken last weeks(motherboard failure),and i don't have update backup for it,
the only one that i have just the offline exchange server... hmm :(
do you have suggestion for it?
thank you...
nico
Can you get the database file off it? If so yes, you can mount the db to another server.
Moving an Exchange Mailbox Database to Another Server or Storage
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997006.aspx
James Chong (MVP)
However mean your gold in wow life is,buy wow gold meet it and live it ;wow gold cheap do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.wow gold kaufen love your life,poor as it is.maple meso You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,maplestory power leveling glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.sell wow gold I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,cheap mesos and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to billig wow gold receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;powerlevel but it often happens that buy maplestory mesos they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble wow powerleveln yourself much to get new things,maple mesos whether clothes or friends
Post a Comment
<< Home