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Replace n (in EOn) with the storage group number, e.g. E01, E02, E03.
11. Mount the database.
a.
Start the Exchange System Manager.
b.
Expand Administrative Groups, and then expand AdministrativeGroupName.
c.
Expand Servers, expand YourServerName, and then expand YourStorageGroupName.
d.
Right-click the Mailbox Store, and click Mount Store.
e.
Click OK when you receive the message that indicates that the store successfully mounted.
12. Create a new user in Active Directory Users and Computers. Make sure that you do not make
the new user account mailbox-enabled. To create the new user:
a.
Start Active Directory Users and Computers.
b.
Right-click Users, point to New, and then click User.
c.
Specify the user name and the user logon name in the appropriate boxes, and click Next.
d.
Specify the password information for the user, and click Next.
e.
Click to clear the Create an Exchange mailbox checkbox, and click Next.
f.
Click Finish.
13. In the Exchange System Manager, expand the Mailbox Store, right-click Mailboxes, and click
Run Cleanup Agent.
14. Recover the mailbox.
a.
Right-click the mailbox that you want to recover and click Reconnect.
b.
In the list of Active Directory accounts, click the user account that you created earlier and
click OK.
15. Use Microsoft Outlook to export the mailbox data to a .pst file or use the Exmerge.exe
tool to extract data from multiple mailboxes.
To download Exmerge.exe, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Using the Recovery Storage Group Feature (For Exchange 2007)
The recovery storage group is a specialized storage group in Exchange. After you restore a mailbox
store to the recovery storage group, use the Exmerge.exe tool to move the recovered mailbox
data from the recovery storage group to the regular storage group.
How Recovery Storage Groups Operate
In previous versions of Exchange Server, a separate Microsoft Active Directory forest needs to be
configured on a recovery server if you want to mount another copy of a production Exchange
database, or to mount a different version of a production Exchange database. With the Recovery
Storage Group feature in Exchange Server, a separate recovery computer is not always needed
when you want to recover data from a mailbox store. After you create a Recovery Storage Group,
and one or more databases have been added to it, you can either restore online backup sets, or
you can copy offline database files to the Recovery Storage Group. To extract or to merge data
from recovered databases in the Recovery Storage Group to a mailbox in a regular storage group,
use the Exchange Server version of Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge Wizard (Exmerge.exe).
To use a Recovery Storage Group, the Active Directory topology of the Exchange Server computer
must be intact and must be in the same state as when the copy of the database was made. This
means that the mailbox or the mailboxes that you want to recover must not be deleted or purged
from the system, or moved to a different database or to a different server.
The Recovery Storage Group feature is not intended for use in disaster recovery operations that
involve multiple servers or multiple storage groups. It is intended as a substitute in situations where
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