Re: POP3 email problems

Try when searching to include hidden files.. concur with others the .pst should be there (assuming they were using outlook previously and not OE, if OE then have to import the dbxfiles in the previous identities folder)


"Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4093AB5A-0520-42C0-BAC8-BE1A4CA1A05E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Everything is in the .pst - email, contacts, calendar.

.pst's are just bad when there's an exchange server right there :-(. So boo on the guy that doesn't set up Exchange, but honestly not making sure they were safe is an oversight on your part. But you'd think they're there somewhere.

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Les Connor [SBS MVP]


"Brian Elkins" <BrianElkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:F63E19DA-9C4D-460D-968D-D6281FAE22E8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Les, Grey, Merv and Joe,

Even though I have them defined as local admins on their workstations I will
try logging in as the administrator and do a search. A local admin should
still be able to search all folders though.

By default I set view so all files are showing including the OS ones. When
I go back tomorrow I'll give it another try.

They were running old versions of Office (2000 and XP) that I uninstalled
and reinstalled Office 2003 Pro but that should have still left the .pst
files.

Unfortunately they were not backing up their workstations or the server.
One of the reasons I was called in.

I know they weren't using Webmail but it would have been good if they were.
I contacted the ISP (the one time out of many I got to a real live human) and
asked them to restore from backup. I don't have a lot of hope they will
actually perform the restore though.

I'll do another search on the .pst files tomorrow.

Would Contacts be located in the .pst as well?

Thank you for all your help.

Regards,

Brian


You might get lucky if those people were using Web Mail from their ISP or if
they have a Web Mail interface and Outlook was leaving the mail on the ISP
mail server.

Joe


"Brian Elkins" <BrianElkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A18265F9-C1A8-4B80-8875-4D413EF27524@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I reinstalled my customer's server with SBS 2003. The server had not >been
> set up properly, updates were not installing and there was other > unusual
> behavior.
>
> The previous installation did not have Exchange installed, they were
> downloading their email directly from the ISP via POP3.
>
> After I set the server up I joined the workstations to a workgroup and
> then
> rejoined them to the new domain.
>
> I set their Outlook clients up again (not using Exchange yet but it is
> installed on the server), opened Outlook, downloaded the new email to
> their
> workstations (they had been gone for several days).
>
> Their old email is gone!!!! What did I do wrong???!!!
>
> I realize now I should have done an export on their email prior to
> unjoinging/rejoining but I didn't. Any idea where I can find their > email?
>
> They have their old archives but unfortunately it does not have the > email
> that was sitting in their inboxes.
>
> Thank you for any assistance.
>
> Brian Elkins
> belkins@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>




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