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We had a single domain controller running exchange 2003 that died completely. &nbsp;I have a backup but for some reason the system did not restore correctly but the priv1.edb and the public folder mail file survived. &nbsp;Now I need to restore this to a new exchange server running on a different machine with a different domain. &nbsp;Is there a tool that will allow me to mount this mail store and restore the mailboxes? &nbsp;I was hoping it would be an easy task but that is for sure not the case.<br />
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So in short I have a new exchange 2003 server ready to accept mailboxes and a good priv1.edb file that shows as a clean shutdown so it is in good shape ready to be restored. &nbsp;Now I just need the glue.
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We had a single domain controller running exchange 2003 that died completely.  I have a backup but for some reason the system did not restore correctly but the priv1.edb and the public folder mail file survived.  Now I need to restore this to a new exchange server running on a different machine with a different domain.  Is there a tool that will allow me to mount this mail store and restore the mailboxes?  I was hoping it would be an easy task but that is for sure not the case.

So in short I have a new exchange 2003 server ready to accept mailboxes and a good priv1.edb file that shows as a clean shutdown so it is in good shape ready to be restored.  Now I just need the glue.

Rogue priv1.edb restore to new domain

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).