Thanks much Steve-I was at the end of the day yesterday and things weren't making sense. I didn't realize that SP1 is a full-blown standalone installer, but after reading your reply I found mention of it this morning here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232170.aspx.
Ran SP1, ran the rollup (had to launch cmd as administrator to get it to run properly), rebooted for good measure, and Exchange backups are happy once again. -Bonnie From: Steve Kistenmacher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: E2k7 Backups I believe that is what you need. Just download the sp1 from MS and it has full install From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 5:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: E2k7 Backups Flattened our backup server and reinstalled to get from WS03 Standard R2 x86 to WS08 Standard x64-This same backup server (same name, same IP) has been backing up our single Exchange 2007 server since it was installed. Got everything back up and running, reinstalled our 3rd-party backup software (Ultrabac) and other backups work, but I'm having trouble getting Exchange backups. So then I remembered, oh, THAT was why I had EMC on the server.... Duh... Got all the pre-reqs added per http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354.aspx and I'm just trying to install the E2k7 management tools. Run setup.exe as administrator from the DVD, install, custom, but I keep getting stopped with "Error: Exchange 2007 cannot be used with the version of Windows operating system running on this computer." Is there a trick, or can this not be done? I found this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931903 that talks about Vista, and the code-base is the same, so it's got me worried. The Exchange install DVD I have is RTM, but we are at SP1 (and I was going to add it)-is that maybe the problem? If so, do I need to get or create SP1 integrated media somehow? And, if I can't install just the management tools, is there any trick to getting just the dlls/files needed to run backups? I have another backup server that is still WS03 that I can run Exchange backups from if we get stuck, but this just seems silly. Thanks for any pointers... -Bonnie ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
