Installing Exchange on a different server after failed primary server

Question

I'm trying to get my exchange server back online, however, after rebuilding my SBS server, exchange install keeps failing. I used the following steps to rebuild my server.

Prior to reinstalling SBS 2008:

Copied live IS from failed server
Removed Exchange data from metadatabase with ADSIedit
Seized roles from failed SBS server with ntdsutil

Steps to reinstall SBS 2008

Installed SBS 2008 in migration mode with old server name and IP
Exchange install failed during setup
Tried removing Exchange and reinstalling manually

Now I cannot remove management tools and anytime I run setup from a command line, all I get is "Exchange Server encountered an error."

It was actually a problem in a registry key. The install path was missing a \ on the end. Now I have other issues mounting the store dbs. — Jason Brown, Oct 19 '14 at 21:21

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 20 '14 at 07:44

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The error when running setup was due to the install path for Exchange server missing the trailing \

edited Oct 20 '14 at 07:44

Jenny D

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '15 at 07:03

Did you get the live transaction logs as well? The Information Store may not be able to cleanly mount the database without performing some level of log replay. Run eseutil against the copied store db, it will tell you if it is in a clean or dirty shutdown state.

Installing Exchange on a different server after failed primary server

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