I'd say this one is up there in terms of difficulty -
So a client of mine was running exchange 2000 on a windows 2000 server that bit the dust and wasn't backed up. I went in and installed a Win 2003 server on a new machine w/ exchange 2003 on it... The dead machine was the only DC on their small network so I made the 2003 server a dc - the only one - I know I'm breaking recommended deployment practices but that's how they want it that's what they can afford.
In essence I was instructed to create a new domain with the same exact name as the old domain - Did that - rejoined all workstations to the new domain everything is is fine there. However the part I'm writing about is what I was asked to do next. Basically the guy wants me to try and recover the old exchange data as much as possible.
I was able to get the old system running and the entire exchange folders are all there in one piece. There's no chance of recovering the Server OS from before. So my question is how the heck might I be able to attempt recovery of the old Exchange server perhaps using the new 2003 Server. All I have done so far is basically copy the contents of MDBDATA to a folder in the new system assuming that it will want to have the data locally accessible.
As you can imagine it's a bit of a doozy - years ago I recovered an Exchange 2000 server that had lost it's DC/ Active directory parents but I don't remember what I did and I didn't have the added obstacle of having to deal with things in a new domain where everything is named the same (except for the actual server name in this case.
HELP!!!
So a client of mine was running exchange 2000 on a windows 2000 server that bit the dust and wasn't backed up. I went in and installed a Win 2003 server on a new machine w/ exchange 2003 on it... The dead machine was the only DC on their small network so I made the 2003 server a dc - the only one - I know I'm breaking recommended deployment practices but that's how they want it that's what they can afford.
In essence I was instructed to create a new domain with the same exact name as the old domain - Did that - rejoined all workstations to the new domain everything is is fine there. However the part I'm writing about is what I was asked to do next. Basically the guy wants me to try and recover the old exchange data as much as possible.
I was able to get the old system running and the entire exchange folders are all there in one piece. There's no chance of recovering the Server OS from before. So my question is how the heck might I be able to attempt recovery of the old Exchange server perhaps using the new 2003 Server. All I have done so far is basically copy the contents of MDBDATA to a folder in the new system assuming that it will want to have the data locally accessible.
As you can imagine it's a bit of a doozy - years ago I recovered an Exchange 2000 server that had lost it's DC/ Active directory parents but I don't remember what I did and I didn't have the added obstacle of having to deal with things in a new domain where everything is named the same (except for the actual server name in this case.
HELP!!!
