Exch 07, Recovery storage groups and 32 bit Exchange

[Mike O.]

I have a question about setting up a dedicated mailbox recovery server in
Exchange 2007.

In our 2003 environment, for mailbox recovery we had a dedicated server set
up in our organization with enough space for one of the production databases.
When we needed to do a recovery of a mailbox for a user, we created the
recovery storage group on the dedicated server and restored from backup to
that system. We then used Exmerge to extract out the information we needed
and then either provided the extracted PST to the user, or imported the data
into their mailbox.

We’ve recently completed our migration to Exchange 2007 and I’m wanting to
set up a similar configuration.

Also, I’d like to use the built in export mailbox functions. However, to
use those commands to export to a PST file (our normal method), it needs to
be run on a 32 bit system with Outlook.

What I’m wondering is if I can combine these functions and use the 32 bit
version of Exchange 2007 for the recovery server. I know the 32 bit version
isn’t licensed as “production”, but since there would be no user mailboxes on
this system, would it OK to use the 32 bit version?

Thanks.
Mike O.

[David Shackelford [MVP Exchange]]

I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but let me try and
achieve your ends with different means:

Rather than use the 32-bit version, it would be more natural to use a
Recovery Storage Group on one of your production mailbox servers. And
instead of using export-mailbox to create .pst files, just use some of the
native wizarded tools within the Exchange Management Console to selectively
merge mailbox data from a mailbox on the RSG into a production mailbox.
Mailbox recovery doesn't require .pst files anymore.

Dave Shackelford

"Mike O." <Mi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server]]

Hi,

"Mike O." <Mi...@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:7000B3EC-DEEB-4B74...@microsoft.com...

the 32-bit version is timebomed. For exporting mailboxes you do not need the
32-bit version but the 32bit-version of the management tools (can be
dowloaded on www.microsoft.com/download).

does this help?

--
Viele Grüsse aus München

Walter Steinsdorfer
MVP Exchange Server
www.exusg.de
http://www.amazon.de/Exchange-Server-Outlook-Umstieg-Profis/dp/382732484X

[Mike O.]

"Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server]" <wst...@inet-service.com> wrote
in message news:er7f%23fYcJ...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

I know I can export with the 32 bit tools, but since I was looking at
creating a dedicated recovery server (actually, probably a VMWare virtual
machine), I was just wondering if I could combine the two functions into one
system.

[Mike O.]

"David Shackelford [MVP Exchange]" <shack...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:elFpXVVc...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but let me try and
>achieve your ends with different means:
>
> Rather than use the 32-bit version, it would be more natural to use a
> Recovery Storage Group on one of your production mailbox servers. And
> instead of using export-mailbox to create .pst files, just use some of the
> native wizarded tools within the Exchange Management Console to
> selectively merge mailbox data from a mailbox on the RSG into a production
> mailbox. Mailbox recovery doesn't require .pst files anymore.
>
> Dave Shackelford

I've been looking at the tools, and will be using them more for the user
mailbox recovery functions. Unfortunately, we still will need PST's for a
lot of our functions. We periodically get requests to export a former
employee's email so that their supervisor or replacement can access it.
Also, I work for a city government, and we often get records requests where
we need to supply copies of email to outside agencies or the media (or
both!), so a PST is the the only option.

[Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server]]

Hi Mike,

why would you need to export mails wenn you have a recover server. With e2k7
a recover server is easy to handle due to the "mailbox portability feature",
wich means you can mount databases on every server. The accounts can be
moved with the move-mailbox cmdlet and the switch -configurationonly. Or you
mount the db in the Recovery Storage Group and recover the mails from there.
hth

[Mike O.]

"Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server]" <wst...@inet-service.com> wrote

in message news:%230BiYNl...@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

I know Exchange 2007 has some built in tools to move and merge recovered
mailboxes, but I work for a city government, and we have cases where we need
to provide contents of a mailbox to outside agencies or the media as "public
records" requests, so we still have to work with PST's.

Mike O.

[Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server]]

Hi Mike,

>>> I know I can export with the 32 bit tools, but since I was looking at
>>> creating a dedicated recovery server (actually, probably a VMWare
>>> virtual machine), I was just wondering if I could combine the two
>>> functions into one system.
>>
>> why would you need to export mails wenn you have a recover server. With
>> e2k7 a recover server is easy to handle due to the "mailbox portability
>> feature", wich means you can mount databases on every server. The
>> accounts can be moved with the move-mailbox cmdlet and the
>> switch -configurationonly. Or you mount the db in the Recovery Storage
>> Group and recover the mails from there.
>> hth

> I know Exchange 2007 has some built in tools to move and merge recovered
> mailboxes, but I work for a city government, and we have cases where we
> need to provide contents of a mailbox to outside agencies or the media as
> "public records" requests, so we still have to work with PST's.

then you can use the export-mailbox cmdlet on a 32-bit Machine. You need to
install the 32-bit Version of the Exchange Management Tools, PowerShell and
so on ....
export-mailbox does not work on a 64-bit system :-(.

[samuelketeku]

Hi Dave,
I know this has nothing to do with your first post but i am
looking for a help. my problem is that i migrated from Excange 2003 to 2007 and all wennt well except my OAB and OOF. My exchange is using cert out of the box.
SRV record set by my ISP.
I have a .local domain and .com domain

this is my cennectivity test

Connectivity Test Failed

Test Details
Attempting to test Autodiscover for e.h...@sunshine.com
Testing Autodiscover failed

Test Steps

Attempting each method of contacting the AutoDiscover Service
Failed to contact the AutoDiscover service successfully by any method

Test Steps

Attempting to test potential AutoDiscover URL https://sunshine.com/AutoDiscover/AutoDiscover.xml
Failed testing this potential AutoDiscover URL

Test Steps

Attempting to resolve the host name sunshine.com in DNS.
Host successfully resolved

Additional Details
IP(s) returned: 186.59.207.231
Testing TCP Port 443 on host sunshine.com to ensure it is listening and open.
The specified port is either blocked, not listening, or not producing the expected response.
Tell me more about this issue and how to resolve it

Additional Details
A network error occurred while communicating with remote host
Exception Details:
Message: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 186.159.207.31:443
Type: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException
Stack Trace:
at System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient.Connect(String hostname, Int32 port)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.TcpPortTest.PerformTestReally()
Attempting to test potential AutoDiscover URL https://autodiscover.sunshine.com/AutoDiscover/AutoDiscover.xml
Failed testing this potential AutoDiscover URL

Test Steps

Attempting to resolve the host name autodiscover.sunshine.com in DNS.
The Host could not be resolved.
Tell me more about this issue and how to resolve it

Additional Details
Host autodiscover.sunshine.com could not be resolved in DNS Exception Details:
Message: No such host is known
Type: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException
Stack Trace:
at System.Net.Dns.GetAddrInfo(String name)
at System.Net.Dns.InternalGetHostByName(String hostName, Boolean includeIPv6)
at System.Net.Dns.GetHostAddresses(String hostNameOrAddress)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ResolveHostTest.PerformTestReally()
Attempting to contact the AutoDiscover service using the HTTP redirect method.
Failed to contact AutoDiscover using the HTTP Redirect method

Test Steps

Attempting to resolve the host name autodiscover.sunshine.com in DNS.
The Host could not be resolved.
Tell me more about this issue and how to resolve it

Additional Details
Host autodiscover.sunshine.com could not be resolved in DNS Exception Details:
Message: No such host is known
Type: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException
Stack Trace:
at System.Net.Dns.GetAddrInfo(String name)
at System.Net.Dns.InternalGetHostByName(String hostName, Boolean includeIPv6)
at System.Net.Dns.GetHostAddresses(String hostNameOrAddress)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ResolveHostTest.PerformTestReally()
Attempting to contact the AutoDiscover service using the DNS SRV redirect method.
Failed to contact AutoDiscover using the DNS SRV redirect method.

Test Steps

Attempting to locate SRV record _autodiscover._tcp.sunshine.com in DNS.
Successfully retrieved AutoDiscover SRV record from DNS.

Additional Details
Srv Record returned host: mail.sunshine.com
Attempting to test potential AutoDiscover URL https://mail.sunshine.com /Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml
Failed testing this potential AutoDiscover URL

Test Steps

Attempting to resolve the host name mail.sunshine.com t in DNS.
Host successfully resolved

Additional Details
IP(s) returned: 213.129.255.163
Testing TCP Port 443 on host mail.sunshine.com to ensure it is listening and open.
The port was opened successfully.
Testing SSL Certificate for validity.
The SSL Certificate failed one or more certificate validation checks.

Test Steps

Validating certificate name
Certificate name validation failed
Tell me more about this issue and how to resolve it

Additional Details
Host name mail.sunshine.com does not match any name found on the server certificate CN=MAIL09

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David Shackelford [MVP Exchange] wrote:

I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but let me try and achieve

08-Jan-09

I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but let me try and
achieve your ends with different means:

Rather than use the 32-bit version, it would be more natural to use a
Recovery Storage Group on one of your production mailbox servers. And
instead of using export-mailbox to create .pst files, just use some of the
native wizarded tools within the Exchange Management Console to selectively
merge mailbox data from a mailbox on the RSG into a production mailbox.
Mailbox recovery doesn't require .pst files anymore.

Dave Shackelford

"Mike O." <Mi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7000B3EC-DEEB-4B74...@microsoft.com...

Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2009 19:14
Mike wrote:

Exch 07, Recovery storage groups and 32 bit Exchange

I have a question about setting up a dedicated mailbox recovery server in
Exchange 2007.

In our 2003 environment, for mailbox recovery we had a dedicated server set
up in our organization with enough space for one of the production databases.
When we needed to do a recovery of a mailbox for a user, we created the
recovery storage group on the dedicated server and restored from backup to
that system. We then used Exmerge to extract out the information we needed
and then either provided the extracted PST to the user, or imported the data
into their mailbox.

We???ve recently completed our migration to Exchange 2007 and I???m wanting to

set up a similar configuration.

Also, I???d like to use the built in export mailbox functions. However, to

use those commands to export to a PST file (our normal method), it needs to
be run on a 32 bit system with Outlook.

What I???m wondering is if I can combine these functions and use the 32 bit

version of Exchange 2007 for the recovery server. I know the 32 bit version

isn???t licensed as ???production???, but since there would be no user mailboxes on

this system, would it OK to use the 32 bit version?

Thanks.
Mike O.

On Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009 00:52

David Shackelford [MVP Exchange] wrote:

I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but let me try and achieve
I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but let me try and
achieve your ends with different means:

Rather than use the 32-bit version, it would be more natural to use a
Recovery Storage Group on one of your production mailbox servers. And
instead of using export-mailbox to create .pst files, just use some of the
native wizarded tools within the Exchange Management Console to selectively
merge mailbox data from a mailbox on the RSG into a production mailbox.
Mailbox recovery doesn't require .pst files anymore.

Dave Shackelford

"Mike O." <Mi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7000B3EC-DEEB-4B74...@microsoft.com...

On Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009 06:53
Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server] wrote:

Re: Exch 07, Recovery storage groups and 32 bit Exchange
Hi,

"Mike O." <Mi...@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:7000B3EC-DEEB-4B74...@microsoft.com...

the 32-bit version is timebomed. For exporting mailboxes you do not need the

32-bit version but the 32bit-version of the management tools (can be
dowloaded on www.microsoft.com/download).

does this help?

--
Viele Gr??sse aus M??nchen

Walter Steinsdorfer
MVP Exchange Server
www.exusg.de
http://www.amazon.de/Exchange-Server-Outlook-Umstieg-Profis/dp/382732484X

On Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009 19:17
Mike O. wrote:

Re: Exch 07, Recovery storage groups and 32 bit Exchange

"David Shackelford [MVP Exchange]" <shack...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:elFpXVVc...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

I've been looking at the tools, and will be using them more for the user

mailbox recovery functions. Unfortunately, we still will need PST's for a
lot of our functions. We periodically get requests to export a former
employee's email so that their supervisor or replacement can access it.
Also, I work for a city government, and we often get records requests where
we need to supply copies of email to outside agencies or the media (or
both!), so a PST is the the only option.

On Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009 19:19
Mike O. wrote:

Re: Exch 07, Recovery storage groups and 32 bit Exchange

"Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server]" <wst...@inet-service.com> wrote

in message news:er7f%23fYcJ...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

I know I can export with the 32 bit tools, but since I was looking at
creating a dedicated recovery server (actually, probably a VMWare virtual
machine), I was just wondering if I could combine the two functions into one
system.

On Freitag, 9. Januar 2009 07:09
Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server] wrote:

Hi Mike,why would you need to export mails wenn you have a recover server.
Hi Mike,

why would you need to export mails wenn you have a recover server. With e2k7
a recover server is easy to handle due to the "mailbox portability feature",
wich means you can mount databases on every server. The accounts can be
moved with the move-mailbox cmdlet and the switch -configurationonly. Or you
mount the db in the Recovery Storage Group and recover the mails from there.
hth

--
Viele Gr??sse aus M??nchen

Walter Steinsdorfer
MVP Exchange Server
www.exusg.de
http://www.amazon.de/Exchange-Server-Outlook-Umstieg-Profis/dp/382732484X

On Freitag, 9. Januar 2009 20:43
Mike O. wrote:

Re: Exch 07, Recovery storage groups and 32 bit Exchange

"Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server]" <wst...@inet-service.com> wrote
in message news:%230BiYNl...@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

I know Exchange 2007 has some built in tools to move and merge recovered

mailboxes, but I work for a city government, and we have cases where we need
to provide contents of a mailbox to outside agencies or the media as "public
records" requests, so we still have to work with PST's.

Mike O.

On Dienstag, 13. Januar 2009 02:47
Steinsdorfer Walter [MVP Exchange Server] wrote:

Hi Mike,then you can use the export-mailbox cmdlet on a 32-bit Machine.
Hi Mike,

then you can use the export-mailbox cmdlet on a 32-bit Machine. You need to
install the 32-bit Version of the Exchange Management Tools, PowerShell and
so on ....
export-mailbox does not work on a 64-bit system :-(.

--
Viele Gr??sse aus M??nchen

Walter Steinsdorfer
MVP Exchange Server
www.exusg.de
http://www.amazon.de/Exchange-Server-Outlook-Umstieg-Profis/dp/382732484X

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