I have a copy of our exchange 5.5 server running in a private network ...not connected to our production network. The information store is up and running and the mailbox that I want to restore is there. I have run exmerge directly from the server but it fails. I have also installed Outlook directly on the restore exchange server, but can't seem to connect to the mailbox in question. Anyone have any idea on what I might be missing. I suspect it might me the DC server. I have tried to load a copy of our DC server on this private network, but when start it ...it tells me that I have to boot it into Directory Services Restore Mode. So I have done that and it get to login prompt and I can't log in. I believe it wants the local password of when the DC was first created and this was done by another person before me. Anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong or need to do?