RE: Exchange Database Recovery to a new server with a new name

  • From: C Drawers <cdrawers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "\[ExchangeList\]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:11:25 -0800 (PST)

That sounds great, Raj.  I would hugely appreciate the GUI app you've provided, 
as well as any information you can provide on what it does in the background!   
 
Thanks!   That is great help!.  

"Periyasamy, Raj" <Raj.Periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.MSExchange.org/
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


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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


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