Hi! I am working on Disaster Recovery for Exchange Server 2003 SP2 for test purpose only. I have a full backup of an Exchange database that I got from a server. I managed to restore the database on *another* server that I set up for recovery purpose (only the NetBIOS name and the NT domain name are the same). On this new machine, I can see the mailboxes under Exchange System Manager in First Organization (Exchange) > Administrative Groups > First Administrative Group > Servers > MYNEWSERVER > First Storage Group > Mailbox Store (MYNEWSERVER) > Mailboxes All the mailboxes are with the red check (disconnected). Whenever I try to reconnect a mailbox, I can' t see any valid user account (only stuff like Guest, IUSR_MYNEWSERVER, etc.). My question is: is there a way to reconnect a maibox from that step (and for example extract the mailbox content in a PST file) and if iyes, how do I do that. Help appreciated. Nicolas
Hi Nicolas, I guess you have installed exchagne into a test lab where you created your test AD domain and Exchange so there is no users in the AD Domain, so you need to create a user account. OR you might replicated the user account into test domain but however they might have exchange email address already associated so in this case you need to remove the exchange attributes "Nicolas Macarez" wrote: > Hi! > I am working on Disaster Recovery for Exchange Server 2003 SP2 for test > purpose only. > > I have a full backup of an Exchange database that I got from a server. > > I managed to restore the database on *another* server that I set up for > recovery purpose (only the NetBIOS name and the NT domain name are the > same). > > On this new machine, I can see the mailboxes under Exchange System Manager > in First Organization (Exchange) > Administrative Groups > First > Administrative Group > Servers > MYNEWSERVER > First Storage Group > Mailbox > Store (MYNEWSERVER) > Mailboxes > > All the mailboxes are with the red check (disconnected). > > Whenever I try to reconnect a mailbox, I can' t see any valid user account > (only stuff like Guest, IUSR_MYNEWSERVER, etc.). > > My question is: is there a way to reconnect a maibox from that step (and for > example extract the mailbox content in a PST file) and if iyes, how do I do > that. > > Help appreciated. > > Nicolas > > > > >
