When issuing setup.com /:recoverserver in exchange environment, how does exchange setup knows that this was a former server? Does it based on IP?
Im running a test environment, and i would like to simulate to recovery at the event that our server no longer boot up. So I prepared a 3 virutual machine, 1 - Exchange Server, 2 - Domain Controller, 3 - Exchange Server to replace server 1.
To simulate that my server 1 is down, I power it off and turn on server 3 with the same network settings, but when I install Exchange it prompts me to use the setup.com /m:recoverserver, so with no stake ahead, I issued the command and it detected the previous roles of this server.
So again, how does exchange setup knows that this was a former server? Does it based on IP? Is there any possible way to only recover a specific role on the replacement server?