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Data Recovery of Exchange 2003 Data

I have a client that had a raid failure. We sent the data out to be recovered and at first it looked like a total loss. I re-intalled a 2003 server with exchange and reset up the AD with new users and exchange with new mailboxes. Now the data has been recoverd from the drives and we need to bring back the old exchange emails into the new server for a few of the users. How do I pull the old data from the mailbox store out to a pst file to be able to use the data?

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If the new exchange server that has been built has the same organization name and administrative group name, then RSG process should work just fine. Copy the database to volume or drive accessible by the production server, and create the Recovery Storage Group and add the database.

Other option that is available is to build a new windows 2003 server in a new forest. You can do this using VMWare or MS Virtual server using free editions, or on any Windows 2003 server as long as you have available storage space for the EDB/STM files. This is a straight server build, no special switches. Recovery server should be at the same OS and exchange patch level as the failed server.
Server name does not matter, as long as the administrative group name and organization name are the same as the failed server.

If you have a mulit admin group environment, i would encourage building and retaining the recovery server on a VM and download the tool "legacydn" from microsoft. This tool makes it easier to recovery stores from servers in different administrative groups.