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Exchange 2003 Disaster RecoveryThis session shows how to prepare for disaster recovery, recover items and mailboxes from backup, and rebuild a destroyed Exchange 2003 Server. Disaster recovery is demonstrated using Mailbox Recovery Center and the Recovery Storage Group. This session also outlines best practices for backing up your Exchange server and introduces alternate server recovery.  On This PageSession Agenda| • | Preparing for disaster | | • | Best practices for backing up Exchange 2003 | | • | Mailbox Recovery Center | | • | Recovery Storage Group | | • | Alternate Server Recovery | | • | Replacing a server |
Session MaterialsThis session consists of a Windows Media presentation and the following demonstrations: 1. | Backup Best Practices This demonstration shows best practices for backing up Exchange 2003, such as how to set up a scheduled backup. Disaster preparedness activities are also covered, such as mailbox retention and backing up the metabase. | 2. | Mailbox Recovery This demonstration shows how to use the Mailbox Recovery Center and introduces the Recovery Storage Group. Using the Mailbox Recovery Center, you’ll see how to return a deleted mailbox to a user. Using the Recovery Storage Group, you’ll see how to recover deleted items to a user’s mailbox. The Recovery Storage Group is covered more in-depth in the next demonstration called Recovering Stores. | 3. | Recovering Stores This demonstration describes how to use the Recovery Storage Group to recover an entire mailbox store. By using the dial-tone method of recovery, we can bring the mailbox store up to date while experiencing minimal downtime. This demo also shows how to be prepared for an alternate server recovery. | 4. | Replacing an Exchange Server This demonstration shows how to restore the system state of an existing Exchange server to a replacement server in preparation for a disaster recovery installation of Exchange. | 5. | Alternate Server Recovery This demonstration shows how to use alternate server recovery to retrieve items from a user’s mailbox. We’ll identify the five settings on the alternate server that must match the original server. After restoring the backup to the alternate server, we’ll see how to use Mailbox Recovery Center and LDIFDE to import a user into the alternate Active Directory. The ExMerge two-step process is then used to create a .pst file from a user’s mailbox. |
Related ResourcesUse the following resources to learn more about topics covered in this briefing. Links Microsoft Press Books 
| Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
Summary: This pocket-sized reference provides fast answers for administering Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 when you’re on the go. It features concise tables, listings, and step-by-step instructions for concise, accurate answers on the spot. | 
| Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Administrator's Companion
Summary: This comprehensive, daily-operations guide provides hands-on information to help you install, configure, and manage Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. | 
| MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-284): Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Summary: This training kit provides in-depth preparation for Exam 70-284, an elective for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 MCSA/MCSE certification. The kit includes a 300-question test bank, full review, case studies, troubleshooting labs, and more. | 
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Third-Party Books 
| Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled
Summary: Nearly three years in the making, Exchange Server 2003 is the most reliable and secure messaging solution that Microsoft has ever produced. Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled is a practical, hands-on guide designed to bring readers quickly up to speed on the latest changes and enhancements to the leading e-mail server. | 
| Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed
Summary: This comprehensive reference, targeted at intermediate to advanced users, covers planning, migration, security, disaster recovery, and troubleshooting. Written by Rand Morimoto, a leading Microsoft server expert, this book is based on his experience implementing Exchange 2003 in heavy-use corporate environments since Beta release 1. | 
| Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Summary: This book covers implementation, migration, and management issues for Exchange 2000 and 2003 and describes best practices of one of the largest Exchange consulting groups outside Microsoft. This revised edition features updates on such issues as performance and clustering. | 
| Monitoring and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Summary: This resource book, targeted at Exchange administrators and designers, focuses on the efficient day-to-day monitoring, management, and fine-tuning of dozens of system specifications and components to ensure optimum traffic flow. Based on the author's 20 years of messaging system experience and the collective experience of HP, the leading implementer of Exchange Server systems, this book provides proven and innovative techniques, tools, and procedures for managing and optimizing systems of all sizes and types built on Exchange 2003. | 
| Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2003: Designing and Building Reliable Exchange Servers
Summary: This book is targeted at Exchange administrators or system implementers who are striving to maintain a production Exchange environment that delivers superior service levels, high availability, manageability, and scalability--with the lowest total cost of ownership. This revised edition contains expanded coverage of storage technology, server technology, management, and security. |
Training and Certification Workshop 2011: Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Summary: This three-day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to identify and resolve common Microsoft Exchange Server issues. CommunitiesCommunities Home Page TechNet Chats Microsoft NewsGroups |
