ExMerge Errors
Fraser Shortt
I'm attempting to recover a VPs mailbox from a monthly backup made nearly a
year ago using ExMerge.
Conditions:
1. The backup was made using BackupExec 10.
2. The Exchange server at the time of the backup was 2003 and named
'Exchange1'.
3. We are now on Exchange 2007.
When I attempt to restore the mailbox using BackupExec12 to the new server
'Exchange2', it fails stating that a resource was unavailable. I figured
the issue was the fact that the old 2003 server was gone. So, I built up a
new Exchange 2003 server naming it 'Exchange1'. I was able to restore the
Information Store from the tape backup to a Recovery Storage Group. When I
run ExMerge to try and extract the user's mailbox to PST I receive the
following error:
"An error was encountered when retrieving the list of mailboxes homed in the
selected databases on server 'EXCHANGE1'. Please refer to the log file,
'ExMerge.log', for more information."
The ExMerge.log file displays the following:
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Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge Program, v6.5.7529.0
Start Logging:January 08, 2009 07:34:58
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[07:34:58] Logging Level: None
[07:34:58] Reading settings from file 'C:\Program
Files\Exchsrvr\bin\EXMERGE.INI'.
[07:34:58] Reading list of subjects for messages to be selected from file ''
[07:34:58] Reading list of attachment names for messages to be selected from
file ''
[07:34:58] List of folders to be ignored has been read. 0 folders in the
list.
[07:34:58] Current machine locale ID is 0x1009
[07:34:58] Operating System Version 5.2 (Build 3790)
[07:35:19] Error 8007203a opening an LDAP connection.
('LDAP://EXCHANGE1/rootDSE') (CADRoutines::GetNamingContextData)
[07:35:19] Accessing Domain Controller 'DC2'
[07:35:19] 'EXCHANGE1' is running Exchange Server 2000 or later
I researched the error "Error 8007203a opening an LDAP connection." online
and came to the following article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323546
I followed the steps but to no avail.
Any ideas? I really need to recover this mailbox.
Thanks in advance,
FS