Exchange 2000 Experts Needed

[saddatabid]

Hi,

I would like to know that if a workstation has been formatted and no *.pst being backed up - Is there a way to recover emails?

Also is it possible to transfer one users inbox to another user (i.e. emails that have been received already). I know how to do mail forwarding but unsure of how to migrate email across mailboxes.

Please help?

 

[Davetoo]

If the emails were located in the PST file on the workstation that has been formatted, then odds are you're out of luck. You could try sending it to one of these places that recovers data, but that's a long shot.

To get the emails from one user to another, just export to a PST, then import into the other users mailbox. Or, give the second user access to the first users mailbox and they could just move them themselves.

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[lcsig22940sw]

The ability to successfuly recover the data would be conitngent on two things: 1)If the drive was only formatted then the data can easily be recovered using forensic tools 2) if the drive has indeed had new data written to it then the likelehood is greatly reduced but still possible. The only way to recover it if the second option is true would be to do a search for the header/footer in the new unallocated space of the drive and then carve it out. Hope this helps.

 

[saddatabid]

Can I not recover these emails from Exchange mailbox?

Surely these must be stored on Exchange mailboxes? Please help?

 

[lcsig22940sw]

I don't quite understand the question you are asking.

Larry - "The other white meat"

 

[Davetoo]

Since I'm lander 215, let me take a whack at this one:

No, if you use PST files, then the mail only resides on the Exchange mailbox long enough to transfer to the PST file.

If you setup the mail account to deliver to a PST (personal folder), then it is moved from the Exchange server to the users PST file.

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[wd5dbc]

Dumb question.....

If you have Exchange, why in the world are you using pst files.

You can change OL to not delete the email from the server when poped. does not help now, but works for future.

hc

 

[saddatabid]

wd5dbc,

What is OL?

 

[Davetoo]

OutLook...OL

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[Nzarth]

You can use both mailboxes and *.pst

I have seen some sites where they use both. The Exchange boxes are used to receive emails, tasks, etc and the *.pst is used by Outlook to archive old items.

Nzarth

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Working on CCNA

 

[Marcs41]

PST's can be used (and mostly are) by laptop users who want all mail at hand all the time.
The alterative is Offline storage (OST), but it can act up now and then.

Saddat, as far as your recovering goes, if you do not have a backup for that workstation, and no 'catchall' option is used on the Server, then those mails are lost .. forever.

Marc
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[Nzarth]

Unless the file has not been previously written over you maybe able to recover it by a forensic tool as mentioned in the 3rd post of this thread......

Otherwise all is lost

Nzarth

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Working on CCNA

 

[Davetoo]

Actually, it was first mentioned in the second post of this thread. ;-)

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[Nzarth]

When I said third I meant second

Note must learn how to read

Nzarth

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[Davetoo]

hehehe, sorry, been locked up in the house for two days with all the ice down here in the SE.

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It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.