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by shanghai sam

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We are running our Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 on windows NT Server 4.0 as a PDC. We wanted to test our back ups and tried to restore the Microsoft Exchange Server.

Exercise Done:

We Installed Windows NT Server 4.0 as a PDC and with the samecomputer name and the domain name as that of the original server. Then we installed the Exchange Server 5.5 and that too with the same configuration, i.e., the same site and Organization Name. Everything went on smoothly. Now we stopped the Microsoft Exchange Information Store Service, Microsoft Exchange Event Service, and Microsoft Exchange MTA Service.

Now We restored the Priv.edb and Pub.edb ONLY and run isinteg -patch utility and it gave the message that the Information store was restored sucessfully.

Now as we tried to start the services, Microsoft Exchange Information Store Service, Microsoft Exchange Event Service, and Microsoft Exchange MTA Service we get an Service Specific Error 1276.

But when we remove this restored database and again copy the database which the Exchange Server had created during installation, all the services are started immediately, without any error.

Please Help

Thanx.

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by brasslet

An error 1276 indicates that the site and/or organization of the Exchange Server don't match the restored information store.

Double-check your organization and site names on the production Exchange Server. You may have used the display name rather than the directory name. You can easily check this by opening the Exchange Administrator program and opening the properties of the site and organization on the production server. The display name is like an alias, what Exchange really is looking for is the directory name. If this is your problem, you'll need to completely uninstall and reinstall Exchange with the correct site and org names.

by brasslet

Of course, what I mean is you'll need to reinstall Exchange on the recovery server. You probably knew that but I'd hate to make THAT mistake...

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