We have a server Farm Setup like following: A1: MOSS Application Server F1: MOSS Front End Server 1 F2: MOSS Front End Server 2 D1: Database Server Now if the A1 machine goes down how can we bring it back up and running as MOSS Application server. Please note we have daily database and MOSS backup scheduled on all servers. There are two types of MOSS back up schedules: 1. Complete MOSS Server Farm backup that creates backup of complete Moss farm. 2. Individual Site back up that creates individaul back ups for all Moss sites.ARaheem Awan

First, you should remove the server from the farm, so that you don't encounter conflicts when you re-join the restored server to the farm. Next, you'll want to get the server's OS back up and running, install SharePoint on the server, then run the SharePoint Config wizard on the server to re-join it to the farm. Then you'll need to turn on the services on the server that were previously enabled, so that its filling the same roles as its previous incarnation. Your backups won't really be able to help you in a situation where you lose a single server in your farm, b/c of the way SharePoint backups work. Those backups that you're making are best used to protect the contents of your SharePoint sites, not restore individual servers within the farm. Also, assuming that any web parts or other customizations that have been deployed to the farm using Microsoft's recommended best practices, the farm will push out those files to your server once it is joined to it. If your customizations have not been deployed via a SharePoint solution package, you will need to copy them to the server as a part of the restore process. I'm recommending that you remove the failed server from the farm then re-add it once you've restored the server to avoid any conflicts that may occur when you restore the server and try to add it back into the farm. SharePoint stores data about each server in the farm in its configuration database, and its far simpler to remove the old server from the config DB and re-add it than to try to use the old entries. Does that make sense? JohnMCTS: WSS v3, MOSS 2007, and SCOM 2007 Now Available on Amazon - The SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide.