Ed, thanks for your response. Well let me explain what we're trying to do and tell me what you would recommend. We have a client who has their exchange hosted remotely, about at 25GB store. This is how I understand it is setup: The remote exchange server is directly connected to the Internet, exposed. The clients at the office go over the Internet with Outlook to connect to their exchange, yeah I know, YUCK. As far as I know, and I will find out more details later, is the exchange server is in a different domain. We had thought they could copy the store to a hard drive and mail it to us, so we could essentially bring their mail in-house to a newly built server.
As the server is in a different domain this option doesn't seem feesable. Should we have the site exmerge the mailboxes, put it onto a HD then mail that to us? Any advise is appreciated! Julian The destination server must be in the same domain and have the same server name, which basically means that you need to clone a domain controller, and build the server with the /disasterrecovery option. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julian Underwood Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: mounting raw store from another server. Hello List, Dealing with Exchange and Windows 2003 Enterprise versions: I've done a bit of Googling about how to take a raw mail store from one server (.edb, .stm, and .log's) and move it to another--have not turned up too much info other than dealing with restores. Which I am not doing. Of course once it's moved to the other server, I would like to be able to mount it and map users to mailboxes. In my experimenting, I've copied the dismounted store to another server. I cannot mount the store. Does the destination server have to be in the same domain as from where the data come from? Does this condition make it easier to mount? Basically if someone could tell me how to mount a complete store on a different server and if there are any differences in this process if the destination machine is in the same or a different domain. The error I get when I try and mount the store is c1041724. Thanks a bunch, Julian PS--I'm not interested in mailbox moves or exmerging data! _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
