From the course: Exchange Server 2010: Designing and Implementing

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Recover an Exchange server

Recover an Exchange server

You do have the option to recover a server, an individual exchange server, and this might be interesting in smaller environments. For example, maybe you have one exchange server. Let’s say exchange one or EXCH1 this computer here, and the hardware dies, and you need to rebuild it. Well you’ve got your databases on the tape backup, but what about the operating system, and what about the exchange installation? So that’s what a server recovery procedure is for, and we have support for that via the exchangesetup.com utility. Let me bring up my command prompt, and I’ll switch into that directory, we’ll take a look at this tool. I’ve extracted the media to E2010SP1 on my C Drive, and if I run setup.com/help you see that we have several options, and we know this because we used this to do the installation, but we also have this option to do a recover server. Now basically everything that exchange has is stored in active directory for the most part. With the exception of certificates, but all…

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