I would like this GUI script also Raj. Thank you. _____ From: Praveen Ramaswamy [mailto:ramaswamy_praveen@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:25 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Exchange Database Recovery to a new server with a new name http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi Raj, Can you please send me this GUI script, i would like to try this out. Regards Praveen R "Periyasamy, Raj" <Raj.Periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: http://www.MSExchange.org/ It changes the following attributes of the affected users, HomeMTA HomeMDB MsExchHomeServername The GUI script is dynamic. It queries the AD and lists all available Exchange servers in your Organization. And It looks for all available Information stores in the failed server, and allows you to select any surviving Exchange server as a recovery server. You must create an additional Information Store in the recovery server with the same name as the Information store being moved from the failed server. This is required to restore the databases from failed server to the recovery server, and the GUI will warn you if there are name mismatches in the information store names. I will send you the GUI separately, try it out and let me know your inputs. Thanks. Raj _____ From: C Drawers [mailto:cdrawers@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:11 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Exchange Database Recovery to a new server with a new name http://www.MSExchange.org/ 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 _____ 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! 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