How to recover a deleted mailbox?

27 Sep 2007 3:54 PM

Clayton Sutton

Hey all,

We are running Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 in a Windows 2003 domain.
Yesterday I deleted a user in AD along with his mailbox. This was an
accident and now I need to recover the mailbox. Can someone tell me the
best way to do that? I can see the mailbox in ESM, it has a red "x" on it
and if I right click on it I get a "reconnect" option. However, the AD
acct. is gone.

What's my next step?

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TIA,

Clayton

P.S.: I wrote an iTunes podcast tutorial and just want to publicize it.
You can find it at: http://www.nikoli.net/itunepod

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27 Sep 2007 4:17 PM

Susan

create a new AD account, with the same name (if you wish - not absolutely
necessary), and "reconnect" the mailbox to that account...

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Susan Conkey [MVP]

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"Clayton Sutton" <n***@none.com> wrote in message
news:QmQKi.104213$HU1.91473@fe05.news.easynews.com...
> Hey all,
>
> We are running Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 in a Windows 2003 domain.
> Yesterday I deleted a user in AD along with his mailbox. This was an
> accident and now I need to recover the mailbox. Can someone tell me the
> best way to do that? I can see the mailbox in ESM, it has a red "x" on it
> and if I right click on it I get a "reconnect" option. However, the AD
> acct. is gone.
>
> What's my next step?
>
> --
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Clayton
>
>
> P.S.: I wrote an iTunes podcast tutorial and just want to publicize it.
> You can find it at: http://www.nikoli.net/itunepod
>
> *******************
>
>
>
>

7 Nov 2007 6:50 PM

Shajahan ak

Hi Clayton,

Use Quest.com restorefromAD tool if delete action has-been done within
tombstone period. this will bring back your deleted user account same SID,
then use ESM to reconnect

all the best
Shajahan

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"Clayton Sutton" <n***@none.com> wrote in message
news:QmQKi.104213$HU1.91473@fe05.news.easynews.com...
> Hey all,
>
> We are running Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 in a Windows 2003 domain.
> Yesterday I deleted a user in AD along with his mailbox. This was an
> accident and now I need to recover the mailbox. Can someone tell me the
> best way to do that? I can see the mailbox in ESM, it has a red "x" on it
> and if I right click on it I get a "reconnect" option. However, the AD
> acct. is gone.
>
> What's my next step?
>
> --
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Clayton
>
>
> P.S.: I wrote an iTunes podcast tutorial and just want to publicize it.
> You can find it at: http://www.nikoli.net/itunepod
>
> *******************
>
>
>
>

7 Nov 2007 7:59 PM

Shajahan ak

link for adrestore....
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Networking/AdRestore.mspx

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"Clayton Sutton" <n***@none.com> wrote in message
news:QmQKi.104213$HU1.91473@fe05.news.easynews.com...
> Hey all,
>
> We are running Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 in a Windows 2003 domain.
> Yesterday I deleted a user in AD along with his mailbox. This was an
> accident and now I need to recover the mailbox. Can someone tell me the
> best way to do that? I can see the mailbox in ESM, it has a red "x" on it
> and if I right click on it I get a "reconnect" option. However, the AD
> acct. is gone.
>
> What's my next step?
>
> --
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Clayton
>
>
> P.S.: I wrote an iTunes podcast tutorial and just want to publicize it.
> You can find it at: http://www.nikoli.net/itunepod
>
> *******************
>
>
>
>