Disaster Recovery Unable to Reconnect Mailboxes

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

ismail
Sun May 11 11:50:00 CDT 2008

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
>
>
>
>
>

Nicolas
Fri May 16 09:48:10 CDT 2008

Thanks Ismail,
I couldn't make it through, unfortunately.
I just can't find some revelant and useful info on this subject.
Regards
Nicolas

"ismail" <ismail@discussions.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>