I predict a new server install. Manually re-joining all the workstations and a manual recovery of the data.
The odds of that server getting restored with the information given is almost none existent, Iv seen things like this before, and a rebuild is normally the only way to move forward. Just hope that the data was backed up. Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley Sent: 29 August 2014 20:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Rebuilding/restoring a SBS 2011 server check [DETECTED AS SPAM]; 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 > SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
