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Exmerge error restoring mailbox in Recovery Storage Group

Is there a way to restore a mailbox for a user that has been deleted from AD, and had their mailbox purged? I attempted to do so, but was getting the following error:

Error! Cannot identify the user with the msExchMailboxGuid \05\96cCs\D1\ADH\80\D2\F3ybj\80\8F. The legacyExchangeDN is /O=MY DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JFACE.

I've read that the msExchMailboxGuid is unique for each user, and doesn't change. So once you purge it, it loses it's association to the user account. Is there a way to reassociate it? Is it possible to restore this data to the original mailbox from the Recovery Storage Group using Exmerge? I am running Exchange 2003.

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I figured out a way to do this. I dismounted all stores, and moved the MDBDATA folder contents to a temporary folder. I then restored a backup to the MDBDATA folder. Then I mounted the stores. In AD, I created a new user with the same name, and reconnected the mailbox. I then used ExMerge to send the users mailbox to a .pst file. I dismounted the stores again, and deleted the contents of the MDBDATA folder. I then restored the contents from the temporary folder back to the MDBDATA folder. Then I ExMerged the .pst file to the users mailbox. It was a lot of work, but a good learning experience.

Thanks for the pointers.