Hi, Problem: IT has deleted the User from AD, leaving the Mailbox intact in Exchange. Question: How do I extract the mailbox and convert it to PST, since the user account has been deleted in AD?

What version of Exchange? You can create a temporary user, attach the disconnected mailbox to the temp user account, and then extract the data. You can exctact the data with Outlook or depending on your version of Exchange you can use built in tools. Tim Harrington | MVP: Exchange | MCITP: EMA 2007/2010, MCITP: Server 2008, MCTS: OCS | Blog: http://HowDoUC.blogspot.com | Twitter: @twharrington

On Exchange 2003. When I right click the Mailbox, it does not have any option to attach the mailbox back to a temp user... Any other idea?

hi, Follows the following steps to reconnect the mailbox Sep1- Reconnect a Deleted Mailbox to a New User Object In Active Directory Users and Computers, create a new user object. When you create the new user object, click to clear the Create an Exchange Mailbox check box. You will connect this user account to an already existing mailbox. Follow step2 as per below to Reconnect (or Recover) a Deleted Mailbox Step-2 To Reconnect (or Recover) a Deleted Mailbox In Exchange System Manager, locate the mailbox store that contains the disconnected mailbox. Click the Mailboxes object under the mailbox store. If the mailbox is not already marked as disconnected (the mailbox icon appears with a red X), right-click the Mailboxes object, and then click Cleanup Agent. Right-click the disconnected mailbox, click Reconnect, and then select the appropriate user from the dialog box that appears. Click OK. Regards, Ajaj Desai (India)

Great suggestions from the others and they should serve you well, however, if you have issues making this work and would like to extract the mailbox from an offline copy of the database check out Lucid8's DigiScope http://www.lucid8.com/product/digiscope.asp since it does not depend upon Active Directory and can open up any version of Exchange Database i.e. 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000 or 5.5. and then allow you to search, browse, export or recover mailboxes and individual messing items of all types.Troy Werelius www.Lucid8.com

Hi Thomos, For exporting the content of the mailbox to a .pst file, you can use ExMerge or Outlook. For detailed, please refer to the articles below, Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Merge Wizard (ExMerge): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=429163ec-dcdf-47dc-96da-1c12d67327d5&displaylang=en How to Configure an account to use the ExMerge Utility in Exchange 2000 Server and in Exchange Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292509/en-us Using ExMerge to recover a Single Mailbox or Mailbox Item: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/ExMerge-Recover-Mailbox.html How to Manage .pst files in Outlook 2007, in Outlook 2003, and in Outlook 2002: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287070/en-us Create and Use .pst files in different versions of Outlook: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/create-and-use-pst-data-files-in-different-versions-of-outlook-HP001231987.aspx Best regards, Serena Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.