I have a dysfunctional (to put it mildly) Exchange Server that is hosted by a WS03r2x64/DC. This DC hosts all roles of Exchange 2007. To address some previous hardware issues, we re-imaged this DC/machine onto a new/bigger disc subsystem and did a Repair/Install to facilitate (F6) the needed/new disc drivers. Afterwards, the said Exchange/IIS problems surfaced.
Currently, there are no AD or network/DNS issues as reported by comprehensive dcDiag/NetDiag testing nor are there any DNS, DS, or FRS error events in those logs. However, iisAdmin won't run (invalid machinekey) and neither will Exchange Powershell (as is needed to work on the IIS issue).
My first goal is to get this DC upgraded to WS08r2 and to still host Exchange on such. Budgetarty reasons prevent us from going to WS12 at this time or from properly hosting Exchange. (We suspect by fall of this year to properly migrate/commission these instances, however, we won't be able to do such before WS'03 becomes unsupported in the next few months.)
So my question is which path do i follow:
1) Do i pursue a remedy for PowerShell so i can use it to preserve IIS settings for Outlook/web and then rebuild IIS (and get this `03DC and Exchange completely functional before doing the WS08r2 migration)?
2) Do i just preserve the Exchange db and then install WS08r2 and do a disaster recovery of Exchange (from the preserved db)? -Is this even feasible?
All comments/suggestiongs are immensely appreciated!
Thanks,
GlennXS
Glenn of xSyLent