One word of wisdom: EXMERGE. Or, if you have money, you might look into the nice automation tools from Quest.
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: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: mounting raw store from another server Yes and yes. Our current plan is to export the data off the local machines, .pst and .ost, YUCK. Any words of wisdom? TIA, Julian > Are these servers in separate organizations, in separate Active > Directory forests? > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP > Freelance E-Mail Philosopher > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T > > -----Original Message----- > From: Julian Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: mounting raw store from another server > > 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. > _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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