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Exchange server in an AD backup/restore scenario
Hello everyone, I would like to know the best practices and approach to the below situation. One Domain Controller in the environment with Two Exchange 2013 servers Due to a failure, the do...
Hello JudeCP,
Apart from the trust relationship there is another problem, AD holds sequence numbers to keep track of all the updates done to an account.
The Exchange Server holds a backup of the Global Catalog but when you restore the DC I'm not sure if the AD accounts in the AD will get the updates from the Exchange Server.
I think the best way solve this is creating a new domain and Exchange server, this of course will require a lot of time.
You will need to recreate all the users, groups, OU's, mailboxes etc.
Then copy the Exchange database from the old Exchange Server, mount it as a restore database and restore all mailbox data into the new Exchange Server.
A broken domain is one of the hardest things to fix and of course the advice would be to create 2 DC's in the future.
Apart from the trust relationship there is another problem, AD holds sequence numbers to keep track of all the updates done to an account.
The Exchange Server holds a backup of the Global Catalog but when you restore the DC I'm not sure if the AD accounts in the AD will get the updates from the Exchange Server.
I think the best way solve this is creating a new domain and Exchange server, this of course will require a lot of time.
You will need to recreate all the users, groups, OU's, mailboxes etc.
Then copy the Exchange database from the old Exchange Server, mount it as a restore database and restore all mailbox data into the new Exchange Server.
A broken domain is one of the hardest things to fix and of course the advice would be to create 2 DC's in the future.