Sbs 2008 rebuild

arfur · 15 Nov 2011 at 20:08

I have a biz customer who has a sbs2008 & exch 2007 server. Something has screwed it up & i can only login via the repair ad services option. I have a mirrored array that i have seperated so i have a safe copy at the moment & i can boot off 1 disk.

I think i will end up reinstalling the server tmrw however is it possible to try & import the exchange config, accounts etc from the other drive?

Thanks

jake108 · 15 Nov 2011 at 23:11

There was a rather hit and miss tool for backing up the Server OS and Exchange via command line by Microsoft and some partner of theirs. Been a long time since I've used it. Name escapes me for the moment.

What exactly is the problem with booting up normally? Is there an error message?

arfur · 15 Nov 2011 at 23:45

Its lost the omain by the look of it, cant run dcpromo, cant remove it from the domain & anythng other than ad recover it bsod's , error is this http://social.technet.microsoft.com...n/thread/8d6fc47f-6775-4ea6-aa69-01f6a8ed0a94

nightmare99 · 16 Nov 2011 at 10:13

It sounds like the ad db is corrupt, as a last resort you can try and use the esentutl tool on the ad db to repair it. I have had some success with this in the past.