Recovering from IIS reset

Hello,
How to recover from a scenario when on the only server in the organisation running Exchange 2013 (other servers still run Exchange 2007), the IIS configuration files have been completly lost and back-ups are not available?
I have an empty Default Web Site, I cannot start Exchange Management console, and I have to restore ECP, OWA, EWS, Autodiscover, PowerShell, OAB and Active-Sync...
Since Exchange 2013 relies on IIS, is there any comprehensive guide on how to recover from a complete IIS reset?
Przemo

Hi,
Thank you for your replies. I know that I have to rebuild virtual directories but it seems there is no way to do it. I cannot uninstall Exchange 2013 because it already contains several mailboxes.
I already tried the recover switch but it only checks if necessery (according to AD config) roles are installed and once it finds them in the regisistry it assumes that everything is ok (what a silly assumption!). You could probably delete manualy Exchange
binaries and recover switch would tell you that all necessery roles are already installed - so this command
is useless.
Now I wasted whole weekend on this and the solution I came up with is a little bit around. I set up separate VM with Windows Server 2012, I created separate Active Directory domain, then I installed Exchange 2013. Once it was complete I copied IIS configs
from this VM to my broken Exchange server. After some modifications, including configProtectedData and listenerAdapters sections I successfully "restored" IIS virtual directories.
Best regards
Przemo

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    File:'/home/esl/.local/share/tracker/tracker-store.log'
    (notification-daemon:1608): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -23 and height 27
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