Recover a Lost Exchange Server 2010

  1. Install the proper operating system and name the new server with the same name as the lost server.
  2. Reset or rejoin the computer account for the lost server.
  3. Install the necessary prerequisites and operating system components on the target server. For details, see Exchange Server system requirements.
  4. On the target server, open File Explorer, right-click on the Exchange ISO image file that you downloaded, and then select Mount. Note the virtual DVD drive letter that’s assigned.
  5. Open a Windows Command Prompt window. For example:
  6. In the Command Prompt window, use the following syntax:

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<Virtual DVD drive letter>:\Setup.exe /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /Mode:RecoverServer [/TargetDir:<Path>] [/DomainController:<ServerNameOrFQDN>] [/DoNotStartTransport] [/EnableErrorReporting]

This example uses the Exchange installation files on drive E: to install Exchange in the default location (%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15) and recover the Exchange server.

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E:\Setup.exe /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /Mode:RecoverServer

This is the same example, but a custom location for the Exchange program files is required to match the location on the lost server.

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E:\Setup.exe /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /Mode:RecoverServer /TargetDir:”D:\Program Files\Exchange”

7. After Setup has completed, but before you put the recovered server into production, reconfigure any custom settings that were previously present on the server, and then restart the server.

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2 thoughts on “Recover a Lost Exchange Server 2010”

  1. Or try these:
    1. You install a new Windows Server instance with the same characteristics as the failed server (the same server name, Windows Server version, drive letters, and performance/capacity)
    2. You perform a recovery install of Exchange 2016 by running setup with the /mode:recoverserver switch
    3. You re-apply any custom configurations that were not automatically re-applied by the recovery install
    4. You restore the Exchange databases if those volumes were also lost in the server failure.

  2. You can recover a lost server by using the Setup /m:RecoverServer switch in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. Most of the settings for a computer running Exchange 2013 are stored in Active Directory. The /m:RecoverServer switch rebuilds an Exchange server with the same name by using the settings and other information stored in Active Directory.

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