Yes, Dell does this. One big hunking C drive.
He seriously has no good backup to restore the server to?
As you are disjoining/rejoining and having a really fun labor day weekend.
Susan Bradley
Still migrating the msmvps.com blogs but we're getting closer.
blogs.msmvps.com/bradley is the new url and redirects are in place
Have I mentioned how much migrations are REALLY painful?
On 8/29/2014 11:38 AM, Art DeKneef wrote:
Seems to be my week for strange things falling in my lap to fix.
Guy called me Tuesday about a downed SBS 2011 server. He was working
with Microsoft for the past couple of days trying to recover the
server/store from corruption. The original IT guy couldn’t/wouldn’t
help him. Tuesday it had been down a week. No email, Internet, server
access. I had him backup everyone’s Outlook to a PST file just in
case. Told him to turn DNS/DHCP on the router/firewall so they had
Internet access. Have a Spam box of some kind filtering email. Users
can now access it via a web client to check stored email. Basic stuff
so they could function a little.
Called this morning and seems the server was hosed really bad.
Microsoft couldn’t recover the server/store so he is going to
reinstall the software and start from rebuilding the domain. Of course
he is hoping to not have to recreate 50 users, the shares, permissions
as much as possible. Somehow I feel there isn’t any good recent
documentation around.
He thinks he has a clean backup in an ISO format he can mount. It
seems this ISO has the server as everything on C: drive. I asked about
the server and it is a Dell server, unknown model, with 3 drives in a
RAID 5 configuration. Everything installed on the C: drive. Who does
that?
The plan is for him to reinstall the software and then apply all the
updates. Should be finished later today. Then tomorrow go there and
help him see if the ISO backup is good and get the shares from the
registry and import them to the new install. And try to see if I can
recover the Active Directory from the ISO and restore that to the new
install. If not then we will be walking around a lot rejoining the
computers to the new install.
I’m sure I left out a few things but anything obvious I missed?
Thanks.
Art DeKneef
Avanti Computers
Mesa, AZ
480-649-4430 Office
480-529-4430 Mobile
