Hi C, This is a very typical DCP/DRP scenario you are referring to. We have come up with a similar situation, and a contingency plan to use our UK site as contingency site for our US operations in such an event. I had worked and developed a VB based GUI to automatically identify all users in the failed Exchange server, and move them over to a temporary recovery server by modifying the related AD attributes. The GUI works excellent. I had tested the GUI in lab environment with great success. If you are interested let me know, I can send you the GUI, please try it out in a lab environment, and please do not distribute the GUI as it contains my firms logo. Once you move the users over to the new server using the GUI, you still need to to be able resolve the old server name in the DNS, but pointing to the IP of a DC or a living Exchange server. That way Outlook will automatically reconfigure itself to point to the new server. Regards, Raj ________________________________ From: C Drawers [mailto:cdrawers@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 11:50 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange Database Recovery to a new server with a new name http://www.MSExchange.org/ I'm working through some DR scenarios in a lab. Here is what I'd like to know how to do: Assume serverA blows up. The server is unavailble. I'd like to restore an Exchange database from serverA to ServerB. ServerB is an existing Exchange Server with existing clients, so I can't rename the server. I must use the name serverB. I know there are some related attributes on mailbox-enabled users. MSExchHomeServerName HomeMDB. Do I just need to edit those things? And then part 2 of the transition, how does Outlook get update or does it need to be done manually? Thanks, C ________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31637/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resour ces/> ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: raj.periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx