I had the most unfortunate event for our SBS 2008 server that was migrated from an older SBS 2003 box about a year ago. Long story short we ended up with file system corruption that meant the Mailbox store and the public folder store database files were completely gone. Only our data was on the drive that was corrupted (moved there using the SBS Move Exchange data in the console) so the system boots fine and everything but exchange databases are gone so nothing is mounted. Very long story short, we also discover that our backups are bad, at least back a couple months. I don't have many users so I figured I can export their Outlook to PSTs and just recreate the mailbox databases blank and reimport the PSTs. I need some higher level help for starters. What is my best bet for getting this going again? Is it easier to create a new mailbox store like this and delete all my mailboxes and just import from PSTs or am I better off to work away at my old backup and see if I can't get that back? I only have a couple dozen mailboxes total here and have current PSTs that i just exported from them. Second, as I'm going I'm finding many references in Exhchange management to my old SBS 2003 server such as in the best practices analyzer it lists the old server under First Administrative group as well as when I attempted to move a mailbox it listed the 2003 Exchange server as an option. This has the impact of not being able to remove the old missing public folders because it says I can't due to Exchange 2003 still being present in my organization. That server is long gone and I was quite sure we followed the migration instructions closely. Is that going to cause me extra grief or are there simple ways to remove those references to the 2003 SBS that still exist. I wasn't seeing event log errors and this server ran for a year like this before this data corruption/crash. All help is much appreciated. JeremyJeremy Regehr

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