[isalist] Re: Restore of ISA server config from 1 sbs server to another Sbs server.
- From: "Amy Babinchak" <amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 08:07:35 -0400
Great story. You are going to make a lot of money from this client.
He'll never again do anything without calling you first.
Use the restore. Worst comes to worst you can reinstall ISA. It takes
what, 20 minutes to install and run the CEIW?
Amy
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From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Glenn P. JOHNSTON
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:41 AM
To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isalist] Restore of ISA server config from 1 sbs server to
another Sbs server.
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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