The details are outlined in technet, but you will create a new AD forest with the same naming convention, create a new exchange server with the same os, exchange and patch versions, then mount a copy of the old database. You won’t use the old OS.
At this point, you can then bulk create accounts, re-attach and bulk export for example. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Graeme Carstairs Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 2:53 AM To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [Exchange] Extracting mail from edb files Sorry Joseph If you could tell me how to go about this that would be great As I really don't know where to begin as I thought exchange was tightly integrate to its ad And if that ad wasn't there then exchange would be useless Thanks Graeme On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 at 09:49, Graeme Carstairs <loonyto...@gmail.com<mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com>> wrote: ok So should I be able to stand up the exchange box without its dc's and then extract from its edb files? On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 23:07, Joseph L. Casale <jcas...@activenetwerx.com<mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote: You don’t need the original DCs… Its honestly not that much work, but it does take a few moments. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] On Behalf Of Graeme Carstairs Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 3:03 PM To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: Re: [Exchange] Extracting mail from edb files Yeh some bright spark got rid of the original dc's so we don't have the domain the exchange was part of All we have is the exchange servers vhds As they thought they had recovered everything and started a new sight their backups and dr Suffice to say the first thing I have sorted with them is to make sure everything is now backed up On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 21:47, Joseph L. Casale <jcas...@activenetwerx.com<mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote: Mock up a tiny segregated lab and do a supported restore, then see what the databases present? Did your org use any third party archiving tools etc? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] On Behalf Of Graeme Carstairs Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 2:21 PM To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [Exchange] Extracting mail from edb files Hi I have been asked to look at this problem and thought I had it licked but no An offices entire server farm was destroyed by water damage They had backups They decided to setup a new ad domain restored file data, restored sql data But for exchange they extracted PST files from the edb contain on the vhdx images they had just before the disaster using stellar edb to PST And imported them into fresh mailboxes on a new exchange 2013 setup Now 6 months down the line they have discovered that all mailboxes are missing a years worth of attachments. They have presented me with 3 vhdx files and two differenceing files for the drives with the databases and the logs on them I have mounted the vhdx and used stellar against the edb and still the last years attachments are missing Is it possible that they are in the logs or the differnceing disks? Or is there a better tool than the stellar one to extract Now I didn't work on the original setup so don't know why the differnecing disks were created or can't say if a tool was used to remove the attachments But what I do have is all the vhd's for the virtual exchange server ( they only retained one copy ) Any suggestions would be appreciated Thanks Graeme -- Graeme Carstairs e-mail :- loonyto...@gmail.com<mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com> -- Graeme Carstairs e-mail :- loonyto...@gmail.com<mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com> -- Graeme Carstairs e-mail :- loonyto...@gmail.com<mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com> -- Graeme Carstairs e-mail :- loonyto...@gmail.com<mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com>
