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Restore deleted mailbox with RSG in exchange 2003
I am restoring a deleted mailbox where the mailbox retention period has passed more than 30 days but the user account in AD stil exist, so i have restored the mailbox store from my backup into Recovery Storage Group. I can now see that mailbox listed under store in recovery storage group, however now when i use EXMERGE to extract the mailbox from recovery storage group into my orginal storage group i get error message in the exmerge.log
And that error is related to the msexchmailboxguid which has been changed. Now i understand that i have to convert the msexchmailboxguid into hex and then replace it using ADSI and then when i will use exmerge it will be OK.
So now i have converted guid into Hex but can you tell me what are the steps for chaning the guid through ADSI. I have never used ADSI so i want to know the steps. Or if you can tell me after converting guid into hex what then i have to do to fix the issue. Thanks
And that error is related to the msexchmailboxguid which has been changed. Now i understand that i have to convert the msexchmailboxguid into hex and then replace it using ADSI and then when i will use exmerge it will be OK.
So now i have converted guid into Hex but can you tell me what are the steps for chaning the guid through ADSI. I have never used ADSI so i want to know the steps. Or if you can tell me after converting guid into hex what then i have to do to fix the issue. Thanks
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Hi Sandeep,
I understand what you saying but the process i was refering to quite quick and straight forward, all i was not sure of how to modify msExchMailboxguid attribute using ADSI. so if you know how to do it i would really appreciate that. I would like you to read this https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23014516/Exmerge-Error-Cannot-identify-the-user-with-the-msExchMailboxGuid.html
which i was following but all not sure how to modify msExchMailguid. please read this and let me know your comments. Thanks
I understand what you saying but the process i was refering to quite quick and straight forward, all i was not sure of how to modify msExchMailboxguid attribute using ADSI. so if you know how to do it i would really appreciate that. I would like you to read this https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23014516/Exmerge-Error-Cannot-identify-the-user-with-the-msExchMailboxGuid.html
which i was following but all not sure how to modify msExchMailguid. please read this and let me know your comments. Thanks
you cannot modify the msExchMailboxGUID, i would not suggest you take that route. the only way to recover this mailbox is change the msExchRestore on the RSG & then reconnect this mailbox with a user then move that mailbox to a production store to exmerge.
Hi,
You can use this link to convert the same.
http://www.arricc.net/exchange-guid-converter.php
This is a good site which talks about converting the mailbox guid to hex.
Thanks,
x-sam
You can use this link to convert the same.
http://www.arricc.net/exchange-guid-converter.php
This is a good site which talks about converting the mailbox guid to hex.
Thanks,
x-sam
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another one that talks about the same is
http://forums.msexchange.org/m_200058200/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#200058210.
this works & i have done this millian times