Exchange 2003 - Find user mailbox store after user has been deleted
Hello All, We have 2 exchange servers with 8 storage group and about 32 mailbox stores. 2 years ago, someone deleted exchange attributes and user account. Now we need to restore that user mailbox from 2 years. I have the backup tapes for last 2 years, but I dont know what mailbox store that user used to reside in. any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks,
May 12th, 2011 11:55pm

Dear Jatin, If you have some old mails from this user, you can find out on which server it was on. Just select the mail, right mouse click, select Properties. Henny
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May 13th, 2011 3:26am

No easy way to do this. Like hennym says, the email will tell you which server but not the group. If you have the server, you can atleast use the recovery storage group and restore all databases per storage groupat once. I would do this after hours because of the work load and make sure you have enough space where you set the recovery to and the temp restore option as well.
May 13th, 2011 9:53am

If you've got backups for your AD (some people do keep it for business reasons), perform a authorative restore for that user Object.
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May 13th, 2011 2:18pm

You're not going to be able to find out unless you do a restore of the AD user object. I periodically do ldifde dumps of my entire AD for quick references when I need to reference something a while back such like these. I've also had old move mailbox logs that I've referenced in the past to get this info if you still have it on your server.James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com
May 14th, 2011 2:36pm

How do you assign mailboxes to stores? Any formula or pattern?
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May 14th, 2011 2:44pm

Hi Is there any update?Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Thanks Gen Lin-MSFT
May 20th, 2011 1:45am

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