Restoring Exchange in a Virtual Environment
If you can help it, just don't do it. It's been a long time since I've had to restore an Exchange server at all, so it took me a while just to get the process down. Still, even after restoring Exchange 'by the book' I am running into errors that I can find almost no reference to anywhere on the web. I believe it has something to do with the fact that the server was originally a physical machine which I converted to a VM and am now running in VMWare Workstation. The old volumes that previously contained the Exchange store are no longer available, so after cloning the Windows drive to the virtual machine I added the disks I needed and started the restore process. Everything looks like it should be fine, but for some reason when I try to mount the Information Store Exchange tells me that the Hard Recovery option was not set on the restored database, even though I know for a fact that it was. I thought that this was okay since I could still run the "eseutil /cc&q