Hi, I tried to google this subject but didn't get good results. Is there a way to import the mailstores/ keys / users / ect... and load them into a fresh install of Windows 2003 Server and 2003 Exchange? We've had some corruption of the boot drive and mail stores. We replaced a bad hard drive causing the errors on the array ... but suspect that there has been damage to the OS. We had to repair the database afterwards.
Can you please answer my questions below before anything can be written down? Do you have the database files intact as of now? Are you talking about the digital certificates of the user when you said "Keys"? Was your exchange server a domain contoller too? -- Milind Naphade http://mnaphade.blogspot.com "Walt750" wrote: > Hi, > I tried to google this subject but didn't get good results. Is there a > way to import the mailstores/ keys / users / ect... and load them into > a fresh install of Windows 2003 Server and 2003 Exchange? > > We've had some corruption of the boot drive and mail stores. We > replaced a bad hard drive causing the errors on the array ... but > suspect that there has been damage to the OS. We had to repair the > database afterwards. >
Your best bet would probably be to install the new Exchange 2003 server into the existing Exchange organization and move mailboxes. That way you don't have to touch the client machines or anything. Another option would seem much more difficult to me is: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555603/en-us -- Chad Mosman M3 Postmasters m3postmasters@nospam.m3tg.com www.m3postmasters.com "Walt750" wrote in message news:e3c01161-015a-4e5a-b563-a2cf8378a4f7@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > I tried to google this subject but didn't get good results. Is there a > way to import the mailstores/ keys / users / ect... and load them into > a fresh install of Windows 2003 Server and 2003 Exchange? > > We've had some corruption of the boot drive and mail stores. We > replaced a bad hard drive causing the errors on the array ... but > suspect that there has been damage to the OS. We had to repair the > database afterwards.
On May 13, 7:18 am, Milind Naphade <milind.naph...@hotmail.com(NO_SPAM)> wrote: > Can you please answer my questions below before anything can be written down? > Do you have the database files intact as of now? > Are you talking about the digital certificates of the user when you said > "Keys"? > Was your exchange server a domain contoller too? > -- > Milind Naphadehttp://mnaphade.blogspot.com > > "Walt750" wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to google this subject but didn't get good results. Is there a > > way to import the mailstores/ keys / users / ect... and load them into > > a fresh install of Windows 2003 Server and 2003 Exchange? > > > We've had some corruption of the boot drive and mail stores. We > > replaced a bad hard drive causing the errors on the array ... but > > suspect that there has been damage to the OS. We had to repair the > > database afterwards. We have used a utility called isinteg.exe to check the database ... after a long time ... the results yielded some fixes the first run ... and on a second run no fixes were made. The databases are intact (at least it seems that way) the emails are there on the OWA ... but after a profile re-new on the clients some emails do not display on the client workstations (but are there on the OWA) .. Strange! Digital Certifiactes (yes) if theses hold the keys to accessing the stored messages. My understanding is if the keys (certificates) are lost ... the stores are useless. The exchange and controller are seperate machines. I'd like to move the exchange server to a Virtual machine actually. Thanks for your help.
