Would setup a virtual machine as "clone" of a productive machine for
disaster recovery purposes. It's an Exchangeserver, integrated into the
coorporate Active directory.
- Have a full backup of the existing Exchangeserver
- Have a seperate System State Backup of the Exchange Server
- Created a Windows 2003 SP1 virtual machine
- Successfully restored all data onto this virtual machine
- Successfully restored the system state onto this virtual machine
- Shutting down the physical, productive Exchangeserver
- Started the virtual Exchange server, logged on locally, removed and
re-integrated the machine into the domain.
Could successfully start the virtual Exchangeserver. But IIS Admin Service
(and then all dependent services) dont start. Getting Service Control
Manager Error 7024 with the description that IIS admin service has
terminated with server specific error 2148073483 (0x8009000B).
Have googeled, but the only solution I found was to reinstall IIS or to
retore the Metabase. This is not an option. Reinstalling IIS would break
Exchange (replacing the Exchange SMTP service). Restore the Metabase doesn't
work, since I'm unable to connect to the IIS Server from the IIS Admin MMC
snap in.
In meantime, the physical Exchangeserver is running again without problems.
So to perform a new system state backup or to extract the metabase is not a
problem.
Any advice how to make the IIS Admin service on the virtual machine working?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Franz