They have gone back to Aug. 1st trying to restore from. So far no luck. I haven't been onsite yet to at least look at the current setup so I have been asking a lot of questions. My mistake here for not specifically asking where everything is. There are two sites where the users are split and the server is located in some colo nearby. This just gets more interesting.
Yes my Labor Day weekend starts at 8:00 AM tomorrow morning. Well he did tell me to bring a coat with. Seems the colo is really cold. Which will feel strange compared to the 108 degrees they are forecasting for tomorrow. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Rebuilding/restoring a SBS 2011 server check 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 >
