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Exchange Server recovery is most critical task for Exchange Admin, we need to prepare for any type of disaster recovery
Usually when there is natural disaster or flood on your current datacenter site you may lose all the servers. So it really important thing to have recovery plan from any kind of situation to recover our servers.
In this blog I’m recovering a lost exchange server 2013 on different hardware,
Exchange 2013 server can be recover by using the Setup /m:RecoverServer switch which rebuilds the Exchange server with the same name by using object information from Active directory.
We need to check the installation path of Exchange Server if we have installed it on different location then we need to use /Targetdir switch to specify the location
Open the ADSIT EDIT tool
Example:
Navigate to the following location: CN=Ex-15,CN=Servers,CN=First Administrative Group,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=First Organization,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=test,CN=Com
Checked the MSExchInstall Path
In my case its default location C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15
The following task you need to perform for recovery exchange server
First we need to reset the computer account from AD
Deploy new operating system with windows updates
Assign same ip address
Join to domain with the same name as before
Assign same drive letters on the server
Install pre-requisites which is required
We will use Setup /m:RecoverServer mode installation
Reseted the Computer Account
We are done with the new operating system with all the Pre-requisites installed on new server
Lets start recovery mode Setup
Setup /m:RecoverServer /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
Reboot the server
There you are done with your disaster recovery