Hi,
Directed recovery is to recover exchange data to a different Exchange
server. In this case, Storage group and database names must match exactly on
recovery server. The recovery server must be configured with the same
organization name and administrative group name as the original Exchange
server. That means you can not use your orginal forest for recovery server.
Simply Exchange is integrated with A.D. This is all about directed recovery.
In case you perform a recovery on production exchange server to RSG, this is
not directed recovery.

Cheers,
Mesut


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:23 PM, 2dam <networker-forum AT backupcentral DOT 
com>wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I am assisting in setting up a directed restore for DR reason for an
> Exchange server. In the admin guide there is the following passage:
>
> To replicate an Exchange database on the recovery server, the following
> conditions
> must be met:
> 1. The recovery server must be in a different Active Directory forest than
> the
> original Exchange server.
>
> My question is:
> If we are using RSG to recover our DB to on the DR exchange server why does
> it have to be in a different Active Directory forest than the
> original Exchange server?
>
> Thanks
> 2dam
>
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