Yeah ,, I made it before alot

just restore your configuration by your file and every thing will be ok in 2 minutes

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From: "Glenn P. JOHNSTON" <glenn.johnston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: "isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [isalist] Restore of ISA server config from 1 sbs server to another Sbs server.
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:41:28 +1000

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Hi,

 

At the urgent request of the owner of the business, I will be attending a site in the morning, with a parcular problem created by the unknowing trying to do what they should not have.

 

It a small business, 5 users running a recently installed SBS2003 Premium SP1 on a HP 1100 server.

 

In an attempt to get inbound VPN working, instead of calling me, the business owner tried to save a few bucks and has resotred an ISA server config backup file he obtained from one of his friends at the chamber of comerce taken off of  his SBS server. He friend told him, "We have that working, just restore this config file, flick this setting and it will be working.

 

Other than it exists I know nothing of the other SBS server.

 

Fortunately he owned up to what he did, so I at least have a straight up and down view of the problem, and know whats happened.

 

Not too supprisingly, now he can not access the server from the network, the LAN PC's are not even getting DHCP addresses, and external e-mail is down, the server no longer is answering on port 25 from the internet. If he logs on to the console, says it's very very slow. He timed it at 20 minutes before the desktop icons appeared  So it seems pretty sick.

 

I've done a technet & web search and there is no mention of such acts, it's probably not a too frequent occurance (thankfully !)

 

Does anyone have any experience with a similar thing ?

 

Before turning up in the morning, I'd like to have some feeling for if the server is recoverable, or if it's likely to need a full rebuild ?

 

I do have a copy of the ISA config from when the server was installed about 3 months ago, does anyone have any feeling for if simply resotring this wil put everything straight ?

 

 

Thanks in advance for any works of wisdom.

 

Regards

Glenn

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