Hello, I'm performing an Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition disaster recovery restore. I'm trying as much as possible to not use our production enviroment. So far I have restored the Exchange server OS (C:\ & Sys State) all is well there. My problem is before I recreate the Exchange Info Store structure I wan't to bring AD up. Again I don't wan't to use the production enviroment. I"ve isolated Exchange in it's own network. My problem is I have a spare Compaq server I wan't to use to restore AD. However, the AD backup was done on a completely different IBM eSeries server. So far I see only two alternatives. 1. Use the Compaq and restore the System State (AD....) 2. Use the Compaq build a Domain Controller and let AD replicate to it in the production enviroment. Once replicated pull the Compaq AD is running on out of the production enviroment and put it into my test enviroment and proceed with the Exchange restore. Is there a better/other way to restore AD on a different server? E'm I going about this the right way? Any and all suggestions welcomed. Thank you. -- RAJ
Hi, for restoring AD to a server with a different hardware have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=263532 Regarding Exchange disaster recovery see an excellent article on msexchange.org site: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Disaster_Recovery.html as well as Microsoft offical site about Exchange disaster recovery http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/DROpsGuide/f9a66c19-b1e0-46c4-a6a1-276a569a08bf.mspx -- Regards, Sasa Milovanovic MCSE:Messaging sasa.milovanovic(at)exchangemaster.net "RAJ" wrote in message news:9986AE7B-99D5-472C-AA20-67AF2AC3FCD6@microsoft.com... > Hello, > I'm performing an Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition disaster recovery > restore. I'm trying as much as possible to not use our production > enviroment. So far I have restored the Exchange server OS (C:\ & Sys > State) > all is well there. My problem is before I recreate the Exchange Info > Store > structure I wan't to bring AD up. Again I don't wan't to use the > production > enviroment. I"ve isolated Exchange in it's own network. My problem is I > have a spare Compaq server I wan't to use to restore AD. However, the AD > backup was done on a completely different IBM eSeries server. So far I > see > only two alternatives. > 1. Use the Compaq and restore the System State (AD....) > 2. Use the Compaq build a Domain Controller and let AD replicate to it in > the production enviroment. Once replicated pull the Compaq AD is running > on > out of the production enviroment and put it into my test enviroment and > proceed with the Exchange restore. > Is there a better/other way to restore AD on a different server? > E'm I going about this the right way? > Any and all suggestions welcomed. > > Thank you. > -- > RAJ
