Hi,
First of all, I am not an exchange expert. So bear with me if i seem a bit noob in this matter.
My customer had a server crash. He managed to get a new server up and running, but here's the thing: he created all new mailboxes. Mail has been coming into these mailboxes for a week now so they're all well-filled by now. Problem is the old mailbox database. He managed to salvage it from the crashed server, and it contains tons of email and he wants all that mail dumped into the new mailboxes. There are 8 mailboxes to merge. I managed to mount the old mailbox database (renamed it to "old email") and placed it into the second storage group. However, exchange does not see the mailboxes in the old email database. I've been scouring google for ways to merge the mailboxes but i cant seem to get the right answer. It all pertains to merging mailboxes from the same database, or between forests.
This is not what i want. I one term, i want to merge email from two mailboxes from two different mailbox databases, on the same server. Preferably, the merged data should be in the primary mailbox database in the first storage group.
I never had much to do with exchange, i prefer kerio connect as it's much easier to deploy and maintain in smaller environments. But i kinda got thrown in the deep end with this. I am hoping someone can give me an answer, preferably with not too much jargon.
Thanks in advance,
Paul.
First of all, I am not an exchange expert. So bear with me if i seem a bit noob in this matter.
My customer had a server crash. He managed to get a new server up and running, but here's the thing: he created all new mailboxes. Mail has been coming into these mailboxes for a week now so they're all well-filled by now. Problem is the old mailbox database. He managed to salvage it from the crashed server, and it contains tons of email and he wants all that mail dumped into the new mailboxes. There are 8 mailboxes to merge. I managed to mount the old mailbox database (renamed it to "old email") and placed it into the second storage group. However, exchange does not see the mailboxes in the old email database. I've been scouring google for ways to merge the mailboxes but i cant seem to get the right answer. It all pertains to merging mailboxes from the same database, or between forests.
This is not what i want. I one term, i want to merge email from two mailboxes from two different mailbox databases, on the same server. Preferably, the merged data should be in the primary mailbox database in the first storage group.
I never had much to do with exchange, i prefer kerio connect as it's much easier to deploy and maintain in smaller environments. But i kinda got thrown in the deep end with this. I am hoping someone can give me an answer, preferably with not too much jargon.
Thanks in advance,
Paul.
