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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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11.13. Using the Mailbox Reconnect Utility

Problem

You have orphaned mailboxes in your Exchange 2000 organization and wish to connect them with their users.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Launch the Exchange Mailbox Reconnect tool (mbconn.exe) from the Exchange Server 2000 media.

  2. Click Next at the welcome screen.

  3. Enter the name of the Exchange server and domain controller, and click Next.

  4. Select the name of the Exchange database to use (or click Select All) and click Finish.

  5. Select Actions Export Users.

  6. Browse for the container you wish your user accounts to be created in, and select a filename for your LDF file.

  7. Click Generate. The Mailbox Reconnect tool will create the filename you specified in step 6.

  8. Go to a command prompt and enter the command

    >ldifde -i -f c:\<
                            filename.ldf
                            >

Once all of the orphaned mailboxes have corresponding accounts, you can run the Mailbox Reconnect tool to connect mailboxes to their accounts.

  1. Launch the Exchange Mailbox Reconnect tool (mbconn.exe) from the Exchange Server 2000 media.

  2. Click Next at the welcome screen.

  3. Enter the name of the Exchange server and domain controller, and click Next.

  4. Select the name of the Exchange database to use (or click Select All) and click Finish.

  5. Select Actions Preview All.

  6. Select the container that houses the user accounts to match. Verify that the information is correct.

  7. Select Actions Apply to connect the orphaned mailboxes to their user accounts.

Discussion

In Exchange versions up to 5.5 the DS/IS Consistency Adjuster ...

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