Mount Exchange 2003 Database in Exchange 2010 in SBS 2011

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So the scenario I am facing is where I had an old SBS 2003 server. I used Outlook to export emails to a PST, saved on a USB and then imported them back into the new SBS 2011 server (two different physical boxes).

We have now destroyed the old box and I have just realized i forgot to export an old, very small email account. I have an image of the old server (using Backup Exec System recovery) and am basically wondering if, and how, i would be able to mount the Exchange 2003 database file from backup into my Exchange 2010 on SBS 2011 and then copy over the one mailbox.

Is this possible? If so, how?

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this is not possible. you will need to install Exchange 2003 somewhere to restore the mailbox.

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Is the PST larger than 2 GB? It is the limit using Exmerge, I'm afraid.

There a two things you could do:

export the mailbox to a .pst file by using Outlook instead of the ExMerge tool
use ExMerge to export individual folders or groups of folders from the mailbox into individual smaller .pst files instead of exporting the whole mailbox to a single large .pst file.

Exporting from Exchange 2003 into Exchange 2010

You have the first two steps right. You'll need the new accounts created and the exported mailboxes.

Luckily PowerShell exists for the third step. Import-Mailbox will do the trick nicely, and it accepts PST's and account names. A good article: http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2010/management-administration/import-export-mailboxes.html

Example:

Import-Mailbox -Identity joe.user -PSTFolderPath C:\temp\joe.user.PST

It should be a quick script to match up the identity based off the PST name, if it was named logically.

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