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Restore a single user's mailbox.
I had a user that left the company so I deleted his user account and purged his mailbox a week ago. Now we found out that he has some email messages we needed. We have a Exchange running on windows server 2003 standard edition.
The mailbox is not in the mailbox recovery center. I have the windows backup utility scheduled to run every night and create a backup. Is it possible to restore this nightly backup from before the mailbox purge and import the mailbox back into exchange? If so, how would I do that without effectiving the live production environment? I already added the user back into Active Directory too.
The mailbox is not in the mailbox recovery center. I have the windows backup utility scheduled to run every night and create a backup. Is it possible to restore this nightly backup from before the mailbox purge and import the mailbox back into exchange? If so, how would I do that without effectiving the live production environment? I already added the user back into Active Directory too.
Also, you can setup a exchange recovery server,
restore the backup there and use Exmerg to cut the PST of that mailbox.
restore the backup there and use Exmerg to cut the PST of that mailbox.
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Ok, this is going to be a dump question, but how do I restore from the ntbackup file (.bkf)? I had setup the server to run a backup everynight using the ntbackup wizard.
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Disregard my previous comment. I found the answers I needed at:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Recovering-Mailboxes-Exchange2003-SP1.html
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Recovering-Mailboxes-Exchange2003-SP1.html
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