I am not trying to discourage you, but you have a lot of work ahead of you man. First: remember that the dead server is your first DC, and first exchange, which means you have to first bring it back online as a DC using the authoritative restore. So you will have the new hardware, and will load the OS, and name it the same as the dead one, and then restore the system state. When you get to this point, come back to the forum, and we'll take it from there. That's not easy but you will be able to get it done. Best of luck -----Original Message----- From: Shyamal [mailto:sunny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 5:15 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange 2000 http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hello to all, Guys I have following senerio and can any one have come accros such situation and have recovery? If so please can you out line me the method. At one site someone had installed first 2000 server with AD, DNS, IIS, and Exchange 2000. Later on I have evaluated and added Veritas Backup with Exchange agent so they can backup every night. Then recently (lucky) I did suggested to add a 2nd DC to replicate there AD and I joint the AD and replicated. Now there first server which was running exchange and GC is dead and my question and undrestanding is that if I installed new with same name as dead server that will replicate my AD. Then I can run exchange setup /disasterrevocery and then restore Storage Group, and hopefully, this will bring back there server to original state. Is my understanding is correct???? Or is there any otherway to make this work????? Any help will be well taken. Shyam ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: mjtech@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx