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MadCow
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Posted - 05/10/2012 :  10:11:58 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

I got rid of a mailbox database called MBX-DB01 after moving all the active mailbox users to new mailbox database MBX-DB001.

It escaped my mind that there were few disconnected mailboxes sitting under the Disconnected Mailboxes container in ESM 2007. These disconnected mailbox users belonged to MBX-DB01.

Now when I go to Disconnected mailboxes container I don’t see those users, is there a way to bring them back or the all gone?

Advise Please.

Thank you.

Sunny
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aval
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Posted - 05/11/2012 :  06:53:59 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
When you removed database MBX-DB01, it didn't mention anything about existing mailboxes (disconnected in this case)?

Usually with these migrations, there's always something (Public Folder for example), that prevents you from removing the database and sometimes forcing a manual removal in ADSIEdit.

Just thinking about this though, if the content of the disconnected mailboxes was contained in the deleted MDB, then I suppose it's gone.

Unless you restore from a backup somehow?

EDIT - I was thinking about restoring to a RSG (this is/was E2K7 right) but I think the fact the mailboxes were disconnected and not associated with a user could complicate that.

Maybe use a third party tool to extract those mailboxes from a backup of the entire E2K (?) database?

This one's often mentioned on the Exchange Tech Net forums:

http://www.lucid8.com/product/digiscope.asp
Edited by - aval on 05/11/2012 06:58:06 AM
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