Re: Exchange 2000 Restore questions

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Why not just change his password and log in?

Nick

"John" <jguerra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We have an employee who quit and we want to see what kind of emails he was
> sending and receiving before he left. I am using backupexec for backup
> and was only backing up the IS and not individual mailboxes (I am now). I
> also did not have Deleted Item Recovery turned on (I do now).
>
> Here's what I have done so far and the problems I am having.
>
> This is Exchange 2000 SP3 with post SP3 updates installed running on Win
> 2K SP4. The exchange server was upgraded in-place from 5.5 to 2K.
>
> I setup a recovery server in it's own domain. I ran setup /forestprep and
> named the organization. Renamed the storage group and mailbox store to
> the correct names and restored the DB. The store will not mount. In
> event viewer I get Event ID 1088 telling me that the names do not match
> and I can see why they do not match, but I can't figure out how to change
> them.
>
> Like I said above, this was an Exchange 5.5 server that was upgraded to
> 2000. The Organiztion name when it was 5.5 was "Jones, Smith, & CO LLP"
> (not the real name and without the quotes). In ESM, the Org name reads
> just "Jones Smith". The problem is that somewhere in AD, the name "Jones,
> Smith, & CO LLP" still exists. I cannot name the Org "Jones, Smith, & CO
> LLP" since AD won't allow the "," or the "&" characters.
>
> Where do I go from here? Not only for the restore I am trying to do to
> recover the ex-employee mailbox, but how will this affect me if I need to
> restore my entire IS because of a disaster?
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>


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