Lost mailboxes

4 Feb 2009 5:25 AM

jackso95@hotmail.com

I moved all the mailboxes from one Exchange 2003 server to
another.Exchange 2003 server. Unfortunately, the second server failed
with RPC errors immediately after the move so I could not move the
mailboxes back. Did a restore of the mailboxes on the first server.

However, all the users are now pointing to the failed servers-
essentially not seeing the restored mailboxes. Example:
Mailbox Store: USCOMAIL/First Storage Group/Mailbox Store
(USCOMAIL)

It should read:
Mailbox Store: USCOMAIL2/First Storage Group/Mailbox Store
(USCOMAIL2) [... with a "2" after USCOMAIL].

I can list out the mailboxes using System Manager. I even tried
Exmerge.exe to extract the into but it can't find any of the mailboxes
either. However, if I create a new mailbox - it will see it.

Both servers were running as Domain Controllers on Windows 2003 Server
Standard.

Is there any way to fix this problem?

Thanks.

Jack

4 Feb 2009 6:06 AM

Ed Crowley [MVP]

If you're going to post the same question to multiple newsgroups you should
post one message addressed to all of the newsgroups with one post so that
answers will be posted to all the newsgroups.

--
Ed Crowley MVP
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
..

<jacks***@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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>I moved all the mailboxes from one Exchange 2003 server to
> another.Exchange 2003 server. Unfortunately, the second server failed
> with RPC errors immediately after the move so I could not move the
> mailboxes back. Did a restore of the mailboxes on the first server.
>
> However, all the users are now pointing to the failed servers-
> essentially not seeing the restored mailboxes. Example:
> Mailbox Store: USCOMAIL/First Storage Group/Mailbox Store
> (USCOMAIL)
>
> It should read:
> Mailbox Store: USCOMAIL2/First Storage Group/Mailbox Store
> (USCOMAIL2) [... with a "2" after USCOMAIL].
>
> I can list out the mailboxes using System Manager. I even tried
> Exmerge.exe to extract the into but it can't find any of the mailboxes
> either. However, if I create a new mailbox - it will see it.
>
> Both servers were running as Domain Controllers on Windows 2003 Server
> Standard.
>
> Is there any way to fix this problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jack

4 Feb 2009 3:51 PM

Transam388

I am unaware of any MS built in tools that allow find and replace. There is
however a company that has a find and replace tool but I do not know if it
supports finding the Exchange server attribute and then changing that.

As this is an MS forum I do not want to list the tool but if you google
search for "Active Directory find and replace tool" you should find it. Give
them a call and ask if this would do what you want.

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"Ed Crowley [MVP]" wrote:

> If you're going to post the same question to multiple newsgroups you should
> post one message addressed to all of the newsgroups with one post so that
> answers will be posted to all the newsgroups.
> --
> Ed Crowley MVP
> "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
> ..
>
> <jacks***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:524066a8-a012-49a9-aaf3-624d50b56b52@q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
> >I moved all the mailboxes from one Exchange 2003 server to
> > another.Exchange 2003 server. Unfortunately, the second server failed
> > with RPC errors immediately after the move so I could not move the
> > mailboxes back. Did a restore of the mailboxes on the first server.
> >
> > However, all the users are now pointing to the failed servers-
> > essentially not seeing the restored mailboxes. Example:
> > Mailbox Store: USCOMAIL/First Storage Group/Mailbox Store
> > (USCOMAIL)
> >
> > It should read:
> > Mailbox Store: USCOMAIL2/First Storage Group/Mailbox Store
> > (USCOMAIL2) [... with a "2" after USCOMAIL].
> >
> > I can list out the mailboxes using System Manager. I even tried
> > Exmerge.exe to extract the into but it can't find any of the mailboxes
> > either. However, if I create a new mailbox - it will see it.
> >
> > Both servers were running as Domain Controllers on Windows 2003 Server
> > Standard.
> >
> > Is there any way to fix this problem?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jack
>
>