Restoring Exchange Server 2003 on SBS 2003

This video will show you the basics of restoring Exchange Server 2003 on Small Business Server 2003. First you'll see how to create a 'dial-tone' version of Exchange, then you'll see how to do a complete restore of the Exchange databases.

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• saturn
• alliance
• saturnalliance
• small
• business
• server
• sbs
• 2003
• exchange

[y2kshafi]

My heartly thanks for posting this video for us. It is very much useful and makes our lifes easier!!

[saturnalliance]

Glad that you found it was of assistance.

[shanecmccutchen]

Great video. Very thorough and well spoken.

[saturnalliance]

Glad you liked it and thanks for the feedback.

[CurlyRedcar]

Nice clear video. you missed one critical point though.

The MD and everyone else screaming that they cant send their emails and the world is comming to an end if you dont get the exchange up and runing in the next 5 mins. If only you could restore in a nice relaxed atmosphere like this. Cracking video thanks for your time.

[saturnalliance]

At least it is pretty easy to get a 'dial-tone' Exchange working by simply deleting all the mail databases. Whenever Exchange fails it is never going to be a relaxed atmosphere so it always a good idea to at least try Exchange disaster recovery a few time in a test environment before having to do it in real life.

[directorciaops]

I think going forward smart business owners will realize they shouldn't be running a mail server (or any server for that matter) in their business. They will simply out source everything and access it via the Internet. That way an off site Exchange server can be set up 'correctly' without the business owner having to worry.

[ChrizRockster]

Agreed.

I think as time goes on and storage becomes more affordable, even new SBS owners will be able to afford to meet the best requirements.

[saturnalliance]

Your points are very valid but in the SBS world price is always a major component so that is why it is as it is.

Glad to hear you like the videos.

[saturnalliance]

In a perfect world yes that is certainly best practice but in the world of most SBS customers this is not really possible. In most cases also SBS Exchange is usually much smaller in size when compared to enterprise Exchange. Again, in a perfect world you would never run Exchange on a domain controller but we need to make some compromises to keep the price to a minimum. In most cases Exchange works very well on SBS given the limitations.