Hello All, I am really thank full for all your suggestions, but me and my team still working on all the solution one by one mentioned above and i will update everyone shortly once we see any positive thing Thanks again for all the suggestion and help Regards, SwapnilRegards, Swapnil Jain

Hello, We tried all possbilites but unable to make this task successfull due to unknown resaon Backup server is showing restroing backup once resotre over it's just showing 2 MB STM and EDB file size and only shows SYSTEM(2) mailboxes Does any one know what could be the reson for this? Regards, SwapnilRegards, Swapnil Jain

Hello, We have Exchange 2003 SP2 and due to some disk space issue we moved all terminated users mailboxes to another Exchange VM and also, we removed Exchange Attributes too for these terminated employees and after 30 days 900+ Mailboxes got deleted as per default deletion policy(which i changed just Now from 30 days to 365 days Now, is it possible to recover deleted mailboxes? If yes, can you please help to share recovery process for same? Your suggestion will help me lot Regards, Swapnil

Hi If a deleted mailbox passes the the retention period then you will only be able to recover it from a backup of the database. Cheers, Steve

So since the AD attributes are no longer in AD you cannot just recover from a backup via RSG without first recovering AD attributes as well, so in this case you might need to build a recovery system that is not connected to your production networks and then restore AD and the Exchange backups to the recovery system.However IF you are open to using 3rd party utilities check out Lucid8's DigiScope http://www.lucid8.com/product/digiscope.asp that provides an intuitive GUI allowing you to open offline Exchange databases (without the need for the AD accounts) so that you can Browse, Search, and Export Mailboxes, Folders and Individual items to PST, MSG and XML or recover the desired data directly from the offline source to any online Production Exchange server, even cross version i.e. 2003 --> 2010Troy Werelius www.Lucid8.com Search, Recover, & Extract Mailboxes, Folders, & Email Items from Offline EDB's and Live Exchange Servers with Lucid8's DigiScope

Hello Troy, I tried DigiScope tool but unbale to find any deleted MBs Satheshwaran: i will try steps menitoned in the link and let you know Thank you all for your suggestion and help. Regards, Swapnil Regards, Swapnil Jain

Follow this article And Recreate AD accounts using Exchange Database itself It should be apt for your situation http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2003/high-availability-recovery/generating-active-directory-accounts-part2.htmlSatheshwaran Manoharan | Exchange 2003/2007/2010 | Blog:http://www.careexchange.in | Please mark it as an answer if it really helps you

Thanks for the update and; Did you use DigiScope to look at the Database OFFLINE or by trying to connect to the production server?If you were using DigiScope to Connect to the Production version of the database we will not show disconnected mailboxes. You will want to ensure you are looking at an OFFLINE copy of the database so that DigiScope can display all mailboxes within the database. If this is what you did and DigiScope cannot see the mailboxes then they are not within that database. At this point I would suggest that restore a backup of that database to disk from a previous point in time and use DigiScope open and review for the missing mailboxes.Troy Werelius www.Lucid8.com Search, Recover, & Extract Mailboxes, Folders, & Email Items from Offline EDB's and Live Exchange Servers with Lucid8's DigiScope

Hello Troy, Good to know that, thanks for your suggestion i will try it and let you know Thanks again for your valuable suggestion Regards, Swapnil

Happy to assistTroy Werelius www.Lucid8.com Search, Recover, & Extract Mailboxes, Folders, & Email Items from Offline EDB's and Live Exchange Servers with Lucid8's DigiScope

Hi, First, Do not change the retention period for such reason. Keep it as short as possible. Changing the retention to 365 Days can cause serious database issue, since Online Maintenance will never complete. You can get those mailboxes only by restoring a good backup.Thanks Sunder

Hi Swapnil Any update on your issue Also you could refer to the KB articale How to Recover a Deleted Mailbox in Exchange http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274343 Hope it helps Cheers Zi FengZi Feng TechNet Community Support