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I have SBS2011/Exchange 2010 and needed to restore a user mailbox. The user deleted a lot of files and the user does not remember which folders he deleted emails from.So I have decided to restore his mailbox from Windows Server Backup. I succeeded in creating Recovery Database called "RecoveryDB" and mounted it in Exchange Server.
When I run Get-MailboxStatistics -Database RecoveryDB, it shows similar amount of emails for that user mailbox.
My question is how can I export all the emails from restored user mailbox into PST file?
If I can create PST file, then I can import that into his Outlook.
I am aware that I need to use New-MailboxRestoreRequest comand, but not sure what the exact syntax should be. Can you help me with that? Let's use the name "John Doe" with login name "jdoe".
Again, I like to know how I can extract all emails from recovered "John Doe" mailbox and create a PST so that I can open his current Outlook and import everything from PST file.
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I am getting an error after running this command:
New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase RecoveryDB -SourceStoreMailbox "William Jefferson" -TargetMailbox 'BJefferson@domain.com
Source mailbox's legacyExchangeDN '/O=FIRST ORGANIZATION/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIP
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (RDole:MailboxOrMailUserId
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : AF354954,Microsoft.Exchang
Let me explain about what we have in the Exchange Server. There are only two mailboxes and I am using fictitious names here:
User Name Login Name Email Address Email Count Note
---------------- ------------------ --------------------- ------------------- --------------------------
William Jefferson WJefferson WJefferson@domain.com 300,000 (59GB) being used to login to SBS network
Bill Jefferson BJefferson BJefferson@domain.com 0 (0 byte) Account exists, but not being used.
My goal is to restore 300,000 emails (59GB) that William Jefferson mailbox account has and create a PST. Is it possible to create a PST file directly out of RecoveryDB?
If not, can I restore William Jefferson's 300,000 emails from RecoveryDB and restore them into Bill Jefferson's account so that I can log in as Bill Jefferson, open Outlook and export all emails into a PST?
I DO NOT WANT to restore William Jefferson emails in RecoveryDB directly into William Jefferson's current/production mailbox. I just like to create a PST from RecoveryDB and then import that PST into William Jefferson's current mailbox using Outlook Import function.
I am getting an error after running this command:
New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase RecoveryDB -SourceStoreMailbox "William Jefferson" -TargetMailbox 'BJefferson@domain.com
Source mailbox's legacyExchangeDN '/O=FIRST ORGANIZATION/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIP
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (RDole:MailboxOrMailUserId
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : AF354954,Microsoft.Exchang
Let me explain about what we have in the Exchange Server. There are only two mailboxes and I am using fictitious names here:
User Name Login Name Email Address Email Count Note
---------------- ------------------ --------------------- ------------------- --------------------------
William Jefferson WJefferson WJefferson@domain.com 300,000 (59GB) being used to login to SBS network
Bill Jefferson BJefferson BJefferson@domain.com 0 (0 byte) Account exists, but not being used.
My goal is to restore 300,000 emails (59GB) that William Jefferson mailbox account has and create a PST. Is it possible to create a PST file directly out of RecoveryDB?
If not, can I restore William Jefferson's 300,000 emails from RecoveryDB and restore them into Bill Jefferson's account so that I can log in as Bill Jefferson, open Outlook and export all emails into a PST?
I DO NOT WANT to restore William Jefferson emails in RecoveryDB directly into William Jefferson's current/production mailbox. I just like to create a PST from RecoveryDB and then import that PST into William Jefferson's current mailbox using Outlook Import function.
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That worked. MailboxRestore is Queued.
I have two questions:
(1) Where is this RecoveryDB.edb located?
(2) in New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase RecoveryDB -SourceStoreMailbox "William Jefferson" -TargetMailbox 'BJefferson@domain.com" -AllowLegacyDNMismatch command, could i have used "Bill Jefferson" instead of 'BJefferson@domain.com"? Why use mailbox name when providing SourceStoreMailbox and spell out email address in TargetMailbox?
I have two questions:
(1) Where is this RecoveryDB.edb located?
(2) in New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase RecoveryDB -SourceStoreMailbox "William Jefferson" -TargetMailbox 'BJefferson@domain.com" -AllowLegacyDNMismatch command, could i have used "Bill Jefferson" instead of 'BJefferson@domain.com"? Why use mailbox name when providing SourceStoreMailbox and spell out email address in TargetMailbox?
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"RecoveryDb should be in location that you have specify whit command, such as bellow:"The folder name that I designated for this job is C:\ExchangeRecovery and that is where "Mailbox Database.edb" (restored from Windows Server Backup) resides. I see a new folder "C:\ExchangeRecovery\Catal
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Now I have got all the emails that I needed from the backup, the whole process has taken up about 120GB of disk space. Once I export all emails in BJefferson into a PST file, can I just delete all these files in C:\ExchangeRecovery folder?
Should I dismount "RecoveryDB"? Is there a command to purge (or delete) all the emails in BJefferson's mailbox after a PST file is created?
Should I dismount "RecoveryDB"? Is there a command to purge (or delete) all the emails in BJefferson's mailbox after a PST file is created?
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@Ivan
Thanks for all of your help and I appreciate it.
Thanks for all of your help and I appreciate it.
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One last question deleting emails that belong to BJefferson:
Which method would provide immediate release of disk space on the file server hard drive?
(1) deleting the user account from SBS2011 Console or
(2) Search-Mailbox -Identity BJefferson@domain.com -DeleteContent
Which method would provide immediate release of disk space on the file server hard drive?
(1) deleting the user account from SBS2011 Console or
(2) Search-Mailbox -Identity BJefferson@domain.com -DeleteContent
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I ran search-mailbox -identity "BJefferson@domain.com" -deletecontent and it took hours to complete, but freed up HD space immediately.
I had 159GB Free HD space before deleting Bill Jefferson's mailbox. After deleting his mailbox, the server now shows 199GB Free space.
I had 159GB Free HD space before deleting Bill Jefferson's mailbox. After deleting his mailbox, the server now shows 199GB Free space.
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I have a question.
Where is this RecoveryDB.edb located? I can't find it anywhere in C:\ExchangeRecovery folder. Since the production mailbox database.edb is 59GB (as shown in the screenshot of C:\ExchangeRecovery folder) and there is only one mailbox account in this mailbox database, would RecoveryDB.edb have about the same size 59GB? But I can't find it even if it shows mounted in Exch Mgmt Console.