SBS2003: One for the experts-Need to extract Exchange Mail Box

Hi, we have a hard drive with an old version of sbs2003 on it. We cannot boot
to the drive(long story) however we are able to read the drive so we can
extract the information we need.

Our Question: We have one mail box on the old system that we would like to
recover as well as the shared contacts. Can anyone advise how we can do this?

Thanks in advance Robert.

Henry
Sun Oct 17 22:07:23 CDT 2004

If you have a backup of that drive you can restore the Exchange
mailboxes to the recovery store and access it there using exmerge to
extract the mailbox to a pst file.

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Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
Melbourne Australia

"Robert" <Robert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:64AD4834-4404-4E9E-89DB-1956D2A9CC0F@microsoft.com...
> Hi, we have a hard drive with an old version of sbs2003 on it. We
cannot boot
> to the drive(long story) however we are able to read the drive so we
can
> extract the information we need.
>
> Our Question: We have one mail box on the old system that we would
like to
> recover as well as the shared contacts. Can anyone advise how we can
do this?
>
> Thanks in advance Robert.

Mike
Mon Oct 18 04:36:35 CDT 2004

Robert wrote:
> Hi, we have a hard drive with an old version of sbs2003 on it. We
> cannot boot to the drive(long story) however we are able to read the
> drive so we can extract the information we need.
>
> Our Question: We have one mail box on the old system that we would
> like to recover as well as the shared contacts. Can anyone advise how
> we can do this?

Simple! Restore from your backup ;)
Oh, you mean there isn't one.... read on:

I`ve had success with the follwing (on sbs2000 though)

Recreate the server (with new disk) with EXACT same settings,
server name, domain, dns,etc.

dismount the store, rename the *.edb and *.sts files
Copy the *.edb and *.sts files from the old drive over.
(some guides say to run eseutil at this point)
remount the exchange store.

exmerge the mailboxes out to .pst files

Failing that, you may have to pay for a program/service that can
extract .pst from .edb files

E.g. Powercontrols from Ontrack

--
Mike