No... Exmerge would error out and fail to create a PST. I have found the answer though. Restoring a mail store to a Recovery Storage Group on Exchange 2003 after you migrate to Exchange 2007 requires you to make a change to the RSG using ADSIEdit.
http://www.petri.co.il/restoring-exchange-2003-mailboxes-exchange-2007-exmerge.htm Scott From: Steve Szabo [mailto:steve...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 9:51 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restoring Ex2003 mailbox after a migration to Ex2007 Could you not use EXMERGE to put the Information in the mailbox in question into a PST file, open the PST with Outlook, and find the message you need? \\Steve// From: Scott Mercer [mailto:smer...@kuendowment.org] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 3:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Restoring Ex2003 mailbox after a migration to Ex2007 I have been ask to look for an e-mail that was received almost a year ago. Generally this is not a huge problem, but, during that time frame we have migrated to Exchange 2007 from 2003. Luckily, I have not decommissioned my Exchange 2003 and it is still online. So, when I recover the 2003 mailstore to a RSG, all is fine. When I use ExMerge, it fails and puts the following in the ExMerge log: Error opening message store (MSEMS). Verify that the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service is running and that you have the correct permissions to log on. (0x8004011d) When I research this error, I find that it is because the mailbox has been moved from the original location it was in during the backup. So, it tried to move the mailbox back to original 2003 server and it failed with some odd error. So what is my next step? Has anyone encountered having to restore mailboxes after a migration? What is the proper procedure for handling this? Thanks, Scott ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
