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by dustymac13 1 view

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Last night we had a power failure and our windows 2000 server went down. I got the server back up however exchange is not working. I have our website on this machine and it is working fine. Also I can ftp into it but can not remote desktop to the server. This server is about 3 hours away from me so I am trying to avoid travel. If anyone has any possible hints or solutions PLEASE help?

thanks,
JMT

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by ddao

if there is someone at the remote site to help you out, I would have them shut the server down gracefully and start it back up. If that doesn't help, get someone to read you the event logs with big red Xs to see whats going on and why the exchange will not start up. Hope that helps.

by bfilmfan

Prepare to travel.

Useful links for you will be:

Exhange 2000 Recovery the Microsoft Way

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2000/support/dbrecovr.mspx

Disaster Recovery for Exchange 2000:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2000/library/disrec00.mspx

LabMice's entry in the field with a pack of links:

http://labmice.techtarget.com/BackOffice/Exchange2000/backup.htm

And when you run out of all hope, there are the pack of party geeks at Experts Exchange:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/

And TR's useful articles:

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/1200-28-5112745.html

by dustymac13

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by dustymac13

Well, I had someone restart the server. The server took 30 min. to load windows however exchange is back up and running. Thanks for the advice. Any idea why it took so long to log on?

Thanks!
JMT

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