RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange issues again(ot)

[Katherine Coombs]

Hi Tom,   Long-time lurker on the AD mailing list and after seeing your posts in recent weeks I really feel for you!!   Anyway, this particular situation got me interested and so I thought that I'd dig around to see what I could find.  The closest article that I could find of relevance was http://thelazyadmin.com/2005/01/exchange-disaster-recovery.htm where the guy mentions:   "Even though forestprep and domainprep was run when you first installed Exchange, you will need to run them again to reset some security accounts. Because it is not updating the Schema, it is a lot faster than you may remember. Now on to the Exchange install. Run the following command to enter disaster recovery mode: setup.exe /disasterrecovery" I don't have a lab handy at the moment, but it sounds like the above could at least explain what you're seeing, namely that unless the Schema Master is available, the disasterrecovery switch won't work.  Unfortunately I don't know of any way to trick Exchange into thinking that it's performed the ForestPrep and DomainPrep.   Cheers, Katherine From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: 26 August 2005 23:53 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange issues again(ot) No, I already have an exchange org installed!!!   I have 10 exchange servers in my AD.   I'm just trying to recover one with the /disasterrecovery switch instead of restoring system state to dissimallar hardware.   I'm not introducing exchange into AD for the first time.   I have an exchange org and admin group and servers already in place. I'm only trying to recover one.   Now, again, before you bail, why does setup need to write to the schema in this case?   Exchange is already here. the place holders have been filled with "real" objects.   Help me please!!   Ahhhhh!!! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 8/26/2005 2:17 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange issues again(ot)