Here is my scenario. We have an E2K7 server that we were in the process of decommissioning. We still had around 50 mailboxes on the server. We had a transformer blow in the building thus killing the power to the data center. When power was finally restored we found out we lost three drives in our EMC SAN and thus the entire array that was holding the program files and database files was toast.
I don’t really care to try and recover and restore any of the data I just want to cleanly remove and uninstall the server from the organization. So, do I still need to do the following
- Build new server with the same name
- Install the OS and patch levels
- Create disk structure exactly like it was before ( on this one does it need to contain the same amount of space as the original volume since i am not going to restore any of data from backup)
- Install exchange prereqs
- Install exchange with the /recoverserver switch
Am I going to need to do all of this just so I can then uninstalled it from the control panel? I was hoping there was be a way to just blow it away and not have to go through all the steps above just to uninstall it in the end,