Case Scenario Exercise

You are the Exchange and domain administrator for Tailspin Toys. Your Exchange Server 2003 organization has a dedicated public server. Your backup strategy is to do a full backup of all Exchange stores every weekend and incremental backups on weekdays. Tailspin Toys has recently purchased an additional server that you intend to configure as a recovery server and domain controller in a separate forest to the tailspintoys.com Active Directory forest. Some senior managers are dubious about the value of configuring an expensive computer so that it is not part of the Tailspin Toys Exchange organization.

• Requirement 1 Management has mandated that an internal e-mail facility must be available 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

• Requirement 2 An employee left the company six months ago, and her mailbox was deleted. There is important information in the mailbox, and you are asked to recover it.

• Requirement 3 Tailspin Toys's chief information officer (CIO) requires evidence that both private and public store data can be restored in the event of a disaster. Also, he wants assurance that an individual public folder can be restored without restoring every folder in the group.

Requirement 1

The first requirement involves implementing an internal e-mail facility that will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

1. Your chief executive officer (CEO) knows that you can do online backups but that mailbox stores need to be dismounted in order to restore data. She is also convinced about the value of trial restores. Previously, you have used recovery storage groups to restore test your restore process, but this is not seen as a totally satisfactory solution as data cannot be restored to exactly the same mailbox store unless you dismount that mailbox store. What do you tell the CEO?

2. Your CIO wants to know how you intend to configure an Exchange server in a different Active Directory forest when Tailspin Toys has only one forest. He also wants to know whether this server will be physically connected to the Tailspin Toys network. What do you tell him?

Requirement 2

The second requirement involves recovering important information from a deleted mailbox.

1. You need to recover a mailbox that was deleted six months ago. What information do you need to obtain about that mailbox?

2. What tool can you use to edit the properties of the configuration container on your recovery server in Active Directory?

Requirement 3

The third requirement involves proving that both private and public store data can be restored in the event of a disaster.

1. Your CIO requires proof that you can restore both public and private stores from backup. What proof can you give him?

2. Your CIO wants reassurance that you can restore a specified public folder in a public store without replacing the information in all the other public folders. What do you tell him?