Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Using the Recovery Storage Group in Exchange Server 2003

When an administrator wants to recover a mail message, a Calendar appointment, a contact, a folder, or entire user mailboxes, Exchange Server 2003 has a Recovery Storage Group function that provides a recovery mechanism. In the past, if an administrator wanted to recover a mailbox or information, the administrator would have to build a brand-new Exchange Server with the exact same server name in the lab and then restore a database to the lab server. After the restore, the administrator could run the ExMerge utility to export the desired mailbox or information, and then transfer the information to the production server and ExMerge the information back into the production server.

The recovery ...