Exchange 2013 mounting old archive DB
Hi Everyone
Env :
Server 2008 Std Edition fully updated
Exchange 2010 Std Edition fully updated
Issue :
We were approached by management at one of our clients to have certain users mailboxes auto archived via exchange 2010.
We initiated the process and created the DB etc.
What we noticed is that the archive folder was only viewable in OWA and not in outlook.
Reading up on this we discovered that Exchange 2010 Std doesnt support auto archiving but Exchange 2010 Ent Edition does.
The database was left for a while and not dismounted. It had grown to 34GB in size.
We eventually deleted the DB from within Exchange 2010 but it still resides in the original folder with all it's logs files intact.
Certain users in the group are complaining that they have mails missing and i now need to remount that DB to query it.
Can this be done?
Env :
Server 2008 Std Edition fully updated
Exchange 2010 Std Edition fully updated
Issue :
We were approached by management at one of our clients to have certain users mailboxes auto archived via exchange 2010.
We initiated the process and created the DB etc.
What we noticed is that the archive folder was only viewable in OWA and not in outlook.
Reading up on this we discovered that Exchange 2010 Std doesnt support auto archiving but Exchange 2010 Ent Edition does.
The database was left for a while and not dismounted. It had grown to 34GB in size.
We eventually deleted the DB from within Exchange 2010 but it still resides in the original folder with all it's logs files intact.
Certain users in the group are complaining that they have mails missing and i now need to remount that DB to query it.
Can this be done?
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Once the mailbox recovery database is enabled, you can then create an AD account and then reconnect that mailbox to that AD user, then you will be able to view the mailbox contents in Outlook and if necessary copy or move old mail back to the user's main mailbox.
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cmsxpjh, thanks for the feedback.
The question i am posing though is, i had an archive DB.
I deleted it from within the EMC.
I left the directory that still holds all that all the DB and its'data.
I need to remount the DB and gain access to it.
How can this be done?
Simon, thanks for the clarification, i was clearly mislead.
So many articles have peoples own view points.
The question i am posing though is, i had an archive DB.
I deleted it from within the EMC.
I left the directory that still holds all that all the DB and its'data.
I need to remount the DB and gain access to it.
How can this be done?
Simon, thanks for the clarification, i was clearly mislead.
So many articles have peoples own view points.
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Simon, sorry for the late response, i will follow through with the recommendation and revert back shortly.
Thanks
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Under the current conditions how can i gain access to the DB that was created? There is data in there that i need to query.