SBS 2011 OWA, ActiveSync and Autodiscover not working after restore – duplicate / copy files in library

One of our techs had a funny one the other day – a power outage and surge went straight through a client’s UPS, and rebooted the ESXi box running a virtualised instance of SBS 2011.  This corrupted the Exchange Database, which refused to mount on reboot.  Easiest solution was a restore to the previous night’s

Restoring SBS Essentials 2011 BMR (Bare Metal Recovery) image backup to Hyper-V VM (Virtual machine)

It’s blog post titles like the above that make me really want to re-evaluate my career choice, sell up and bugger off round the world on a 2 year trip using only smoke signals to communicate to the rest of the world… Anyway – to the issue in question! I’m basically going to tell you