How to backup an Exchange 2007 SP1 server

Microsoft have put a lot of effort into security of it’s products over the last 5 or so years through their Secure by Design/Secure by Default initiatives. Basically they look to switch off every non-core feature to ensure that the inexperienced administrator doesn’t leave something exploitable running by accident. This is Good News™ but it throws two roadblocks in the way of Asigra Televaulting doing it’s backups.

Firstly they totally removed the MAPI Client libraries from the 2007 edition. This is the core function that Asigra Televaulting’s DS-Recovery Tools (AKA message level backup) uses to backup Exchange. Thankfully you can download and install the MAPI Client and CDO from here.

The other piece of bad news is that Service Pack 1 disabled the Remote Streaming function by default. The only way to re-enable it is to edit the registry as follows:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersSystem

Name: Enable Remote Streaming Backup
Type: DWORD
Value: 0 = default behavior (remote backup disabled);
1 = remote backup enabled

Once you restart the server the new settings should be applied and backups should run without errors.

-Gary