I hope someone can help me with an Exchange disaster recovery project I have started. Essentially, I am trying to restore an Exchange storage group that is located on a cluster to a standalone server.
The purpose of my DR project is to get used to the restore process with Networker Exchange and to also test an off line defrag of the Exchange information store. Using a few servers at my disposal I have created a Networker backup server, domain controller and a server that I can put Exchange on. The domain controller was in the production domain, removed from the domain, put in the test domain where I seized the FSMO roles.
After setting up the domain, I built the backup server with the same configuration as the production box and performed a Networker restore of the box. The restore was successful and I am able to see index information for my Exchange server.
Now the problem I am running into is restoring the Exchange server information store after building out a standalone Exchange server. The restore fails because the Networker for Exchange sees that the original servers information is in Active Directory and cannot find the server. The production Exchange server is a cluster node and I only have a standalone available for testing purposes.
In the Networker DR guide for Exchange it stated that I need to create a new forest in Active Directory in order to accomplish this type of scenario.
So, right now I am at a standstill. I can't seem to get this to work and I would appreciate any help at all with this.
Michael
The purpose of my DR project is to get used to the restore process with Networker Exchange and to also test an off line defrag of the Exchange information store. Using a few servers at my disposal I have created a Networker backup server, domain controller and a server that I can put Exchange on. The domain controller was in the production domain, removed from the domain, put in the test domain where I seized the FSMO roles.
After setting up the domain, I built the backup server with the same configuration as the production box and performed a Networker restore of the box. The restore was successful and I am able to see index information for my Exchange server.
Now the problem I am running into is restoring the Exchange server information store after building out a standalone Exchange server. The restore fails because the Networker for Exchange sees that the original servers information is in Active Directory and cannot find the server. The production Exchange server is a cluster node and I only have a standalone available for testing purposes.
In the Networker DR guide for Exchange it stated that I need to create a new forest in Active Directory in order to accomplish this type of scenario.
So, right now I am at a standstill. I can't seem to get this to work and I would appreciate any help at all with this.
Michael
