Here is my situation: I had a exchange server crash at a customers site. no backups and corrupted EDB and STM. I did a reinstall of exchange on a new box exactly like the old box with the /disasterrecovery switch. Can i create a new mailbox store and new users accounts of the existing users and will it keep the Active directory exchange information? I am figuring once i do this i have good PST files that i can import back into the exchange mailboxes. Does this scenario work?
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:25:01 -0700, chris wrote: >Here is my situation: I had a exchange server crash at a customers site. no >backups and corrupted EDB and STM. I did a reinstall of exchange on a new box >exactly like the old box with the /disasterrecovery switch. Can i create a >new mailbox store and new users accounts of the existing users and will it >keep the Active directory exchange information? I am figuring once i do this >i have good PST files that i can import back into the exchange mailboxes. >Does this scenario work? You can mount the stores. You'll get warnings and you'll accept them. Make sure the mountat startup is ticked and the overwritten by a restore isn't ticked (on the properties of the store obviously)
On Jun 19, 12:38 am, "Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:25:01 -0700, chris > > wrote: > >Here is my situation: I had a exchange server crash at a customers site. no > >backups and corrupted EDB and STM. I did a reinstall of exchange on a new box > >exactly like the old box with the /disasterrecovery switch. Can i create a > >new mailbox store and new users accounts of the existing users and will it > >keep the Active directory exchange information? I am figuring once i do this > >i have good PST files that i can import back into the exchange mailboxes> >Does this scenario work? > > You can mount the stores. You'll get warnings and you'll accept them. > Make sure the mountat startup is ticked and the overwritten by a > restore isn't ticked (on the properties of the store obviously) You would not be required to create new mailboxes on this DB, since mailboxes would be created automatically - for a simple reason the Server Name remains the same in the same Org / AG. Hence, by mounting blank store - mailboxes would exist (however they would be empty). You would have to ask your users to log into OL once, or send a test email to everyone for the mailboxes to get populated in ESM
