Users Guide

Exchange Operations
The following table lists the general Exchange-related tasks you can perform using ASM/ME.
Table 19. Exchange Operations
Task See Section
Create application-consistent Smart Copies of
mailbox databases (Exchange 2016 and 2019),
volumes and collections.
Create Exchange Smart Copies
Set up Smart Copy schedules. Schedule Smart Copies for Microsoft Exchange Components
Perform In-Place or Brick-Level restores to
recover and restore Exchange data.
Recover Microsoft Exchange Data
Use a command line for creating site-specific
scripts.
Use a Script to Create Smart Copies
For all supported Exchange versions, you can
clone a mailbox database from a source , and
then set it up on the same server or on a
different Exchange Server.
About the Clone and Restore as New Operation
Overview of Exchange Smart Copies
If your Exchange mailbox databases and logs are stored on a PS Series group, you can create Smart Copies of your Exchange
components. A Smart Copy of a mailbox database (Exchange 2016 and 2019) automatically includes a copy of its logs and
mailstores.
NOTE: You should not create Smart Copies of individual logs and mailstore components.
Perform Checksum Verification on Smart Copies to ensure data integrity and consistency as potential recovery backup copies.
You can run this procedure in one of the following ways:
● Immediately at the time of Smart Copy creation
● After Smart Copy creation
● As part of a scheduled Global Verification task
● By using command lines or scripts
● On a remote host or verification server dedicated to running Checksum Verification
See Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery for more information about Checksum Verification.
After your Exchange Smart Copies are created, you can recover data from them using In-place or Brick-level recovery:
● In-place recovery is a point-in-time restoration of all data in an entire mailbox database.
● Brick-level recovery involves creating a Recovery mailbox database (for Exchange 2016 and 2019) to set a Smart Copy
snapshot online and recover information that was lost from production computers.
See Recover Microsoft Exchange Data for more information.
Exchange eseutil.exe Utility
Several ASM/ME operations include an option to specify the location of the Exchange Server eseutil.exe utility. ASM/ME uses
this Exchange utility to verify data integrity.
The path defaults to the standard Exchange installation:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\eseutil.exe
If the eseutil.exe utility is not at the default location, you are prompted to specify a path before you can perform any relevant
Exchange-specific operations.
See the Exchange documentation for information about eseutil.
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