Exchange offline recovery

Hi,

I was asked to recover personal and public folders (edb) off an Exchange
2003 server.
The Windows 2003 on which it's installed can be accessed. However, I was
told that the Active Directory has been removed "by mistake".

I'm planning on installing a Windows 2003 with Exchange and copying the edb
files over.
I saw a few MS kb articles which refer to ESEUTIL.
I will most probably go with the MS instructions.

Any articles that I can be refered to or guidelines that you might have is
appreciated.

Thanks

Greg

Rob
Wed Jan 28 11:30:44 CST 2004

With SBS2000 I had a similar issue when I only had the .edb and .stm folders
of exchange, not a lot else. There is possibly a neater way of doing it but
by a process of trial and error I was able to set up a new server with the
same user names as the old server. When using the user setup wizards, I did
_not_ create a mailbox for the user.

In exchange system manager I expanded to First storage group and dismounted
the new mailbox and public folder stores. I then pasted and the salvaged
edb and stm files into the MDBData folder of exchange in Program files. Back
in exchange systme manager, expanding the mailbox store and Mailboxes I was
then confronted with lots of red crosses against each individual mailbox.
right clciking those allowed me to reconnect to individual users.

I then promptly did a backup using Exmerge of all mailboxes to .pst files
but at that point users had got the majority of stuff back, but permissions
to shared bits needed to be reset. A bit of fiddling in a user's outlook
wiht public folders backing up that to a .pst file too ensured I could get
everything back neat and tidy.

Of course it took a while as I needed a temporary server to work with! No
doubt someone has a better way that I could have done it.

"Greg Adourian" <greggy2@sympatico.c_a> wrote in message
news:n2RRb.4969$qU3.356461@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Hi,
>
> I was asked to recover personal and public folders (edb) off an Exchange
> 2003 server.
> The Windows 2003 on which it's installed can be accessed. However, I was
> told that the Active Directory has been removed "by mistake".
>
> I'm planning on installing a Windows 2003 with Exchange and copying the
edb
> files over.
> I saw a few MS kb articles which refer to ESEUTIL.
> I will most probably go with the MS instructions.
>
> Any articles that I can be refered to or guidelines that you might have is
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>

Greg
Wed Jan 28 19:26:27 CST 2004

I will give it a try.
thanks

"Rob Cullen" <rcullen@curchodandco(nospam).com> wrote in message
news:uRGk4Sc5DHA.2432@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> With SBS2000 I had a similar issue when I only had the .edb and .stm
folders
> of exchange, not a lot else. There is possibly a neater way of doing it
but
> by a process of trial and error I was able to set up a new server with the
> same user names as the old server. When using the user setup wizards, I
did
> _not_ create a mailbox for the user.
>
> In exchange system manager I expanded to First storage group and
dismounted
> the new mailbox and public folder stores. I then pasted and the salvaged
> edb and stm files into the MDBData folder of exchange in Program files.
Back
> in exchange systme manager, expanding the mailbox store and Mailboxes I
was
> then confronted with lots of red crosses against each individual mailbox.
> right clciking those allowed me to reconnect to individual users.
>
> I then promptly did a backup using Exmerge of all mailboxes to .pst files
> but at that point users had got the majority of stuff back, but
permissions
> to shared bits needed to be reset. A bit of fiddling in a user's outlook
> wiht public folders backing up that to a .pst file too ensured I could get
> everything back neat and tidy.
>
> Of course it took a while as I needed a temporary server to work with! No
> doubt someone has a better way that I could have done it.
>
> "Greg Adourian" <greggy2@sympatico.c_a> wrote in message
> news:n2RRb.4969$qU3.356461@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was asked to recover personal and public folders (edb) off an Exchange
> > 2003 server.
> > The Windows 2003 on which it's installed can be accessed. However, I was
> > told that the Active Directory has been removed "by mistake".
> >
> > I'm planning on installing a Windows 2003 with Exchange and copying the
> edb
> > files over.
> > I saw a few MS kb articles which refer to ESEUTIL.
> > I will most probably go with the MS instructions.

Jim
Wed Jan 28 21:25:58 CST 2004

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326052&Product=sbs
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313184

The second article is the one support walks you through.

"Greg Adourian" <greggy2@sympatico.c_a> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was asked to recover personal and public folders (edb) off an Exchange
>2003 server.
>The Windows 2003 on which it's installed can be accessed. However, I was
>told that the Active Directory has been removed "by mistake".
>
>I'm planning on installing a Windows 2003 with Exchange and copying the edb
>files over.
>I saw a few MS kb articles which refer to ESEUTIL.
>I will most probably go with the MS instructions.
>
>Any articles that I can be refered to or guidelines that you might have is
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Greg
>
>
>

Jim B. SBS MVP
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