We are running Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise. It is great at what it does. However, the technology is a little dated at this point -- it seems to be stuck in 1998 as far as db technology goes. Can't dump the database; no mirrored transaction logs etc. etc.
I'm really not knocking it though.
As with any Microsoft product the support is really good. The Exchange team was very thorough with trying everything to get the stores to mount.
As for the Event Viewer (system and application logs) they were wiped.
We did see something in IPAudit that was a little strange at the time the Exchange server started to crash. Of course, it only confirms our suspicions; but it doesn't give us any culprit. We're fairly certain that it wasn't a student ... which is probably the most important thing.
I'm just glad the ordeal is semi-over now. I'm just tying up loose ends now ... re-applying OWA customizations etc. It ended up being 28 straight hours for me.
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