Backup

Exchange Server: Create a backup of the configuration

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Exchange Servers store a large part of the configuration in the Active Directory, which is why a backup of the Exchange Server does not include the configuration of the Exchange Server, but usually only the data (such as the mailboxes). Important settings such as permissions on mailboxes or settings for the virtual directories are stored in the Active Directory. Especially when ... Read more

Exchange 2016: Backup and restore with Windows Server Backup (Part 2)

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The second article in this series is about restoring a mailbox from the data backup that was created in part 1 with the Windows Server backup. The procedure is the same for many backup tools and essentially consists of writing the mailbox database back to a restore database and restoring the required data from it. The procedure described here ... Read more

Exchange 2016: Backup and restore with Windows Server backup (part 1)

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This series of articles is about backing up and restoring Exchange databases and mailboxes using Windows Server Backup. The test environment consists of a Windows Server 2016 with Exchange 2016 on which the Windows feature "Windows Server Backup" has been installed. The Windows Server Backup is a simple tool with which Windows Server and Exchange can be backed up and ... Read more

VSS: Backup fails with error message ConvertStringSidToSid

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Today I once again had a Windows server that could no longer be backed up via VSS. The creation of a VSS snapshot aborted with the following error message: Volume Shadow Copy Service Error: An unexpected error occurred while calling the routine "ConvertStringSidToSid(S-1-5-21-1629892529-1905228445-1032730592-4125.bak)". hr = 0x80070539, The structure of the security identifier is invalid. . Operation: OnIdentify event Generator data is being collected Context: Execution context: ... Read more