DC has died. Can the replacement DC have the same name/domain?

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A DC for a 10 user network has died. The RAID-5 Configuration lost all it's disks!

I have a complete backup of all their data and exchange.

Questions.

1.Can I use the same server name and domain name on the new DC?

2.Easiest way to restore the exchange data?

3. Anything else I should look out for?

Cheers for any info :)
 
What version of exchange? Are we talking a single, standalone SBS box?

If this was the only copy of the the AD schema and partitions then yes, you can call it whatever you like (including the same names as before), as the old infrastructure no longer exists.
 
Well the simplest way of restoring your exchange data (assuming you have the information stores? .edb and .stm files?) is to exmerge them back into the new stores.
 
I hope you rmailboxes arent over 2gb :)

Other than that, a handy profile tool is profwiz which allows you to assign a local profile to a domain account, this will come in handy as when you create the new users, even though they have the same username their SSID will be different.

One note on that which usually irritates me is the nk2 file in outlook, when sending to local users it doesnt use [email protected], it uses their full AD identifer eg: site=blah, domain=blah, ou=blah, user=blah.

depending how many users there are, you can use nk2view to manually delete the old entries which no longer apply but this is something you have to do on their machine (or access the nk2 file remotely if outlook isnt open).
 
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If you want to restore exchange from tape the server will need the same domain, computer name and Exchange organisation name.

No reason not to do it in this way assuming you have a good backup. Exmerging is a pain when you should be able to restore and remount the databases in a new install.
 
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