Hi all,

My questions i am sure are simple however i am hoping the solution is just as simple.

Before i begin be patient, i understand that more time would have helped along with 100 other things that could have been done but it still leaves me with this problem.

I have had to upgrade a companies network and have found my self stuck with a 2GB public store file

The enviroment is

OLD server=

Was: Mail server, File Server,DHCP and PDC

Now: Mail server,DHCP and PDC

New Server=

Is: File server along with other network management tools and an Inventor server for Auto cad

I have the ability to insert the old hard drives and bring the old server back up and running as was if needed.

The problem is i would think obvious from the above, that i have had to use the same hardware for the mail server giving me little chance of doing any sort of swing or replication method.

Finally to my question:

is there anyway that i can mount the public mail store from the old mail server into the new mail server public store, i have the files sitting on the server ready to go.

If this has been confusing i apologise.

Thanks in advance

Cyber

What version of Exchange was the old mail server? If it was the same, you should be able to copy the database, log, and chk files from the old server to the new and mount it as a store in Exchange System Manager. You will need all of the relevant files, and you'll probably want to do a consistency check on them once you copy them back to the new server.

And also slightly OT but relevant, having Exchange installed on a AD DC (of any kind) is ALWAYS a bad idea, unless it's a SBS Server (and even then, it's not the best solution).