I know it’s 2012 and I’m writing about a server from 2007. It’s still fairly relevant. Exchange 2010 has some different functionality, so keep that in mind. I also know that we don’t use exmerge in post-2003 exchange environments. But I like the terminology.<\/p>\n
Basically I had a user delete all of their calendar items and they were not showing up in the recover deleted items section of outlook. Good thing I had a backup. Bad thing was the database their email was on grew to 81GB. Worse thing was the email server and the backup server were connected by a measly 20mbps pipe.<\/p>\n
Fast forward 11 hours and I had a copy of my EDB file on my exchange server. So now what?<\/p>\n
Create a folder called C:\\exch_recovery (or anything you want, just be sure to change the directories in the following commands)
\nOpen the Exchange PowerShell. PowerShell is required as a recovery database is not visible by general users. It helps if you’re an exchange\/domain\/enterprise admin in this case.<\/p>\n
Create the storage group for recovery I’m assuming you’re trying to recover something from your original Mailbox Database, otherwise change the mailbox name as appropriate. Make sure that the database is in “clean shutdown” mode. If not in a clean shutdown mode, and you have the log files required, run the following (assuming the log files start with E01): Now tell Exchange about this database Allow your database to be restored As this database is still hidden, run the following to mount it The restore-mailbox command will merge the mail from the recovery database into the current database automatically. If the user does not exist, there will obviously be no merge and only a copy will occur Optional Cleanup Is this the best way? Probably not, but it worked for me. The user now has their calendar items again and lost NO MAIL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know it’s 2012 and I’m writing about a server from 2007. It’s still fairly relevant. Exchange 2010 has some different functionality, so keep that in mind. I also know that we don’t use exmerge in post-2003 exchange environments. But I like the terminology. Basically I had a user delete all of their calendar items … Continue reading Exmerge Exchange 2007<\/span>
\nNew-StorageGroup -Server SERVERNAME -LogFolderPath c:\\exch_recovery -SystemFolderPath C:\\exch_recovery -Name rsg -Recovery<\/code><\/p>\n
\nCopy your BACKUP edb into the C:\\exch_recovery\\ directory.<\/p>\n
\neseutil \/mh path\/to\/edb\/file.edb<\/code><\/p>\n
\neseutil \/r \"e01\" \/l C:\\path\\to\\log\\files\\directory \/d C:\\path\\to\\edb\\file\\directory<\/code><\/p>\n
\nNew-MailboxDatabase -MailboxDatabaseToRecover \"Mailbox Database\" -StorageGroup SERVERNAME\\rsg -EdbFilePath \"C:\\exch_recovery\\Mailbox Database.edb\"<\/code><\/p>\n
\nSet-MailboxDatabase -Identity \"SERVERNAME\\rsg\\Mailbox Database\" -AllowFileRestore:$TRUE<\/code><\/p>\n
\nMount-Database -Identity \"SERVERNAME\\rsg\\mailbox database\"<\/code><\/p>\n
\nRestore-Mailbox -Identity \"JOHN SMITH\" -RsgDatabase \"SERVERNAME\\rsg\\mailbox database\"<\/code><\/p>\n
\nRemove-MailboxDatabase -Identity \"SERVERNAME\\rsg\\mailbox database\"<\/code>
\nRemove-Storagegroup -Identity \"SERVERNAME\\rsg\"<\/code><\/p>\n