Not to minimize your plight, in this sense you're lucky--your users will likely have fairly low expectations. Replyability is probably the least of their concerns.
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 Stephen Bishop Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:47 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Dial tone restore Nah, I don't think that's an issue. All appointments and calendars have been thrown completely out of whack by our evacuation. Mainly they want their emails for research and personal contacts. Unfortunately for us admins, everyone uses email as a file cabinet and trash can. Not much we can do about it (hence the large data stores). We've actually now demo'd the Powercontrols 3rd party Exchange mailbox extractor, and really like it. It does look like it might be more money than the management is willing to spend. (Almost $7000.00 for the amount of mailboxes we need it for.) We 'might' get away with less if the only mailboxes they want restored is upper management, but we have purchased some additional servers for our recovery site, and we plan on taking at least one of them and doing the restore as described by Mr. Crowley earlier. Thanks again for all the help! - - - End of Line - - - Stephen Bishop Displaced OCA Network Engineer Somewhere in New York/New Jersey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy David Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:36 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Dial tone restore I don't think you create a recipient policy based upon the x500/DN, at least you couldn't in E2000, IIRC. Bulk modification with a script or admodify is probably required. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevinm Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:26 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Dial tone restore You could get around that by adding the old X.400 address to a repcient policy right? --Kevinm WLKMMAS http://www.wlkmmas.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Cunningham Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Dial tone restore One thing possibly to bear in mind with Ed's suggestion is that the existing calendar items from your old server will have the old x400/x500 (or whatever) names. This would also be true of existing emails. When a person replies to an existing internal email or changes an existing appointment (that came from the PST) the reply email *may* have the old details in it and it will not be sucessfully sent. A minor thing to check , but with 1300 users, it could swamp the helpdesk with "I can't send email/people an't getting my appintment updates" The only solution is to get them to delete the exisitng appointments and start from new. Fo the mail items - check addresses against the address list. Cheers Dean -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Bishop Sent: Friday, 16 September 2005 6:19 a.m. To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Dial tone restore Thanks to everyone that replied. Ed, we had discussed exactly what you proposed below, but thought there might be an idea we hadn't thought of yet. Looks like we were on the right track though! We are currenly requesting pricing on the 3rd party edb tools (wonder if the eval version is timed or by mailbox...hmmm....) Once again, thanks for the support and cheers to one of the greatest discussion groups around. - - - End of Line - - - Stephen Bishop Displaced OCA Network Engineer Somewhere in New York/New Jersey (845)234-6865 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:43 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Dial tone restore It is likely easier to use the suggestions to buy a third-party tool. Maybe they can offer you a Katrina discount. But you can accomplish what you want to do without a tool. I'm assuming you don't want to start over, right? If you haven't done so already, just give everyone a new mailbox so that they can send and receive new e-mail. Restore your domain to an off-line server, then install Exchange with the /disasterrecovery switch, then do the restore. Then you can use exmerge to merge the old data in with the new mailboxes by copying the old data to PSTs, then merging those PSTs into the new mailboxes. 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 Stephen Bishop Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:38 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Dial tone restore Ok, I need some assistance here from the best of the best (with a well meaning look at Ed...) We are currently in a declared disaster mode from Hurricane Katrina. We grabbed our backup tapes and ran to the North East to a recovery site. We did a few things wrong at the start. The active directory backup was not restored, and a new domain with the same name was built. (Blame no sleep or documentation) We have been creating email accounts and AD users from lists we had in our SQL databases because getting communications via eMail to users that had evacuated all over the country was top priority. We figured we could restore the old mailboxes later. (Perhaps using exMerge) So we did a dial tone build. The exchange server (2003-SP1) was not named the same as the old Exchange server, nor was the Administrative group. Our NetBackup tapes are fine, we have no problems with restoring databases to the Exchange server, it just won't mount them. (Complains about the mis-named Administrative group) We know that we can restore to a different server with the same Admin names on the same Forest, (We have done that in the past to restore a mailbox), but like I said, our old AD was not restored... We have tried changing the Legacy DN with ADSI edit, but then the current information store fails, so we have to set it back. We may be going about this the wrong way totally, but we are against a wall, and are appealing to the community for some assistance. Oh, and please no flames about testing recovery plans. We are already writing new ones with the full cooperation of the management (finally) Not only has Katrina ruined our homes and our lives, but she is wrecking our minds as well. Any help would be appreciated. - - - End of Line - - - Stephen Bishop Displaced Network Engineer Disaster Recovery Site Somewhere in New York/New Jersey Don't call me, I'll call you when it's fixed... _________________________________________________________________ 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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