Re: How to recover from crashed server?

With all due respect, you've already made a mistake by posting an urgent
question to a public newsgroup instead of calling Microsoft PSS or some
other expert agency that is able to assist you immediately.

I believe that your answer is as follows. If I've made a mistake perhaps
another MVP or professional will correct me.

For each of the accounts, remove its Exchange attributes. Create a new
mailbox on the new server. Then use Exmerge to merge the data out of the
recovery storage group and into the new mailbox.

Now, you're going to lose the e-mail attributes on the old mailbox, so
you'll have to reenter those manually.

A script would be the best method of rehoming these mailboxes, but I don't
have a sample for you, and whatever sample you got would have to be heavily
modified for your particular situation.
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Dean R. Henderson" <dean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Oq5$WOO$GHA.3260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I had Exchange 2003 running on a Windows 2000 server and the server crashed
(looks like the motherboard is dead, but the disk with the Exchange data is
working).

I have another server that is also running Exchange 2003 and I created a
Recovery Storage Group on this second server where I was able to recover
all of my mailbox data up to the point of the crash.

What I want to do is somehow get the mailbox accounts from the crashed
server (there are less than 10 of these) working on the second Exchange
server and use the data from the Recovery Storage Group to populate these
accounts with the old Exchange data up to the point of the crash.

Plus I need to get my email running again for these accounts as soon as
possible.

I would appreciate any advice on how I can get these accounts running on
this other server.

Thanks, Dean



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