Hi all, I need some advise on a procedure i want to test. I am perfomring a test disater recovery situation and our exchange environment wil be isolated from the main network. I am looking at restoring the data from tape to the DR server and then allowing users to connect and test the DR server for general email functionality. Once the test is finished the DR server will have all have all the mailboxes deleted and then the production servers will be brought back on-line. Can anyone help me with the following questions. Is this possible ? is there any writen procedures for something like this. What is the quickest way to delete all the mailboxes on the DR server. Any help wil be great. Thanks Hoppers
Absolutely, article goes over this in detail. "Microsoft® Exchange Server mailbox databases are portable between servers that are running the same version of Exchange and that are in the same administrative group. A mailbox database created on one server in an administrative group can be renamed or copied to a different storage group on the same server or to a different server in the same administrative group. After this renaming or copying has been done, the links between user accounts and mailboxes must be reconfigured." Moving an Exchange Mailbox Database to Another Server or Storage Group http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997006.aspx James Chong (MVP) On Mar 13, 2:38 pm, Peter.Hop...@Blackrock.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I need some advise on a procedure i want to test. > > I am perfomring a test disater recovery situation and our exchange > environment wil be isolated from the main network. > > I am looking at restoring the data from tape to the DR server and then > allowing users to connect and test the DR server for general email > functionality. > > Once the test is finished the DR server will have all have all the > mailboxes deleted and then the production servers will be brought back > on-line. > > Can anyone help me with the following questions. > > Is this possible ? > is there any writen procedures for something like this. > What is the quickest way to delete all the mailboxes on the DR server. > > Any help wil be great. > > Thanks > > Hoppers
