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if you still have the databases you could mount them and pull the emails you need
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if you still have the databases you could mount them and pull the emails you need

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We have an exchange 2007 that was in use a few years ago but was eventually decommissioned. When we decommissioned the server we uninstalled exchange from the server (VM) &nbsp;and domain but kept the VM of exchange and a prior to removing exchange snapshot. Now several years later we have a sopena for emails from 2007-2008 which is likely stored within this servers information store. I need to see what emails are stored here, but I cannot simply login to the server via owa because all the AD components of exchange have been removed and I don’t believe it would be a good idea to let this server interact with a production PDC. Any help, advice or suggestions on accessing the information store would be appreciated. 
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We have an exchange 2007 that was in use a few years ago but was eventually decommissioned. When we decommissioned the server we uninstalled exchange from the server (VM)  and domain but kept the VM of exchange and a prior to removing exchange snapshot. Now several years later we have a sopena for emails from 2007-2008 which is likely stored within this servers information store. I need to see what emails are stored here, but I cannot simply login to the server via owa because all the AD components of exchange have been removed and I don’t believe it would be a good idea to let this server interact with a production PDC. Any help, advice or suggestions on accessing the information store would be appreciated. 

How do I access exchange 2007 information store directly for email retrieval ?

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

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.