Exchange 2010 Recovery

Recently I had to recover my Exchange 2010 Servers. One of them was the Mailbox server role part of the DAG and the other one was the CAS, Hub and UM server. Those 2 servers were totally gone, unrecoverable due to RAID controller failure

CAS + Hub + UM Server Recovery

• Build the server, Windows 2008 R2 SP1, name it EXACTLY the same name with the failed server name
• Add all the Windows Server role + features required for CAS+Hub+UM
• Patch it
• Join to the domain
• Extract the Exchange 2010 SP2 to the temp directory (e.g. C:\temp)
• Run setup.com /m:RecoverServer
• Reboot and check the configuration

Mailbox Server Recovery

• Build the server, Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (Enterprise), name it EXACTLY the same name with the failed server
• Add the Windows Server role + features required for Mailbox role
• Patch it
• Join to the domain
• Remove the database copy from this failure Mailbox server (e.g. do this from the running Exchange 2010 Server)

Remove-MailboxDatabaseCopy DB1\MBX1

• Remove the failed server's configuration from the DAG

Remove-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer -Identity DAG1 -MailboxServer MBX1 -ConfigurationOnly

• Extract the Exchange 2010 SP2 to the temp directory (e.g. C:\temp)
• Run setup.com /m:RecoverServer
• Reboot
• Add the server back to the DAG

Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer -Identity DAG1 -MailboxServer MBX1

• Add the database copy

Add-MailboxDatabaseCopy -Identity DB1 -MailboxServer MBX1

Trixbox + CUCM + Exchange UM + SP3102 + SRP527W Part 1

I have setup the voice network @home as per below picture

As you can see, there are a lot of SIP trunks between them. I will try to put the configuration for each of them

Exchange UM - CUCM

For Exchange UM and CUCM connection configuration, just follow the document published by Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13591

The following is the CUCM Media Resource Group

The following is the CUCM Media Resource Group List

The following is the CUCM Configuration for the SIP Trunk to Exchange UM (e.g. mx01.domain.local), use the Media Resource Group List created above

CUCM - Trixbox

Create a new SIP Trunk Security Profile

Create a SIP trunk from CUCM to Trixbox, use the SIP Trunk Security Profile created above

Create a new Route Group

Create a new Route List

Create a new Route Pattern

I have extension 1499 and 1500 for Exchange UM Pilot and Auto Attendant respectively

I created a Route Pattern for default route to Trixbox when dial starts with 9. I also do exactly the same Route Pattern to the default route when dial starts with 0. The purpose for this is to use VOIP when dial with 9 and to use PSTN when dial with 0 first (configuration later on Trixbox)

Trixbox - CUCM

To be continue...