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For exchange 2003, use ExMerge.Exe

Restore-Mailbox cmdlet to recover a mailbox by using a recovery storage group.

A full backup has been created.

create a recovery storage group

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restore the mailbox database;assuming the issac database is restored.

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Bob Plaston wants you to recover the deleted and purged messages from his mailbox.

Restore-Mailbox -Identity "Ashly Plaston" -RSGDatabase 'EX20071\Recovery Storage Group\Issac'

Both Ashly.Plaston@work.com and Shane.Williams@work.com are hosted in the same database Ex20071\Recovery Storage Group\Issac. To restore the Ashly Plaston's mail from 02/02/09 to 02/15/09 into mailbox Shane Williams.

Restore-Mailbox -RSGMailbox "Ashly Plaston" -RSGDatabase 'Ex20071\Recovery Storage group\Issac' -id 'Shane Williams' -TargetFolder 'Ashly Plaston' -StartDate '02/02/09' -EndDate '02/15/09'

Export-Mailbox

Same database

get-mailbox -Database issac | fl Name

Name : rena hicken
Name : Sam aston
Name : Jim Flether

Move the mail of inbox from Sam Aston to Jim Flether

Add-MailboxPermission "Jim Flether" -User "Kaiming" -AccessRights FullAccess

Add-MailboxPermission "Sam Aston" -User "Kaiming" -AccessRights FullAccess

Run Exchange Management Shell as account: Kaiming

Export-Mailbox -Identity Sam.Aston@work.com -TargetMailbox Jim.Flether -TargetFolder Sam.Aston

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Different databases

get-mailbox -Server ex20071 | FT Database, Name

Database	Name
EX20071\First Storage Group\Issac	rena hicken
EX20071\First Storage Group\House	George Allistair
EX20071\First Storage Group\House	Shane Williams
EX20071\First Storage Group\Issac	Sam aston
EX20071\First Storage Group\Issac	Jim Flether

How about to move content of Rena.Hicken@work.com to Shane.Williams@work.com?

Add-MailboxPermission "Rena Hicken" -User "Kaiming" -AccessRights FullAccess

Add-MailboxPermission "Shane Williams" -User "Kaiming" -AccessRights FullAccess

Export-Mailbox -Identity Rena.Hicken@work.com -TargetMailbox Shane.Williams -TargetFolder Rena.Hicken

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Export data of George Allistair to a .pst file and import the data from the .pst file into Rena.Hicken mailbox

Install Office 2003 and SP3 into Ex20071 computer

Add-MailboxPermission "George Allistair" -User "Kaiming" -AccessRights FullAccess

Export-Mailbox -Identity George.Allistair@work.com -PSTFolderPath C:\GeorgeAllistair.pst

Add-MailboxPermission "Rena Hicken" -User "Kaiming" -AccessRights FullAccess

Import-Mailbox -Identity Rena.Hicken@work.com -PSTFolderPath C:\GeorgeAllistair.pst

Delete a message sent to all mailboxes in House database

Add-ADPermission -Identity "House" -User "Kaiming" -ExtendedRights Receive-As

Get-Mailbox -Database House | Export-Mailbox -SubjectKeywords "Virus message" -DeleteContent -Confirm:$false

Find a specific message

Get-Mailbox -Database House | Foreach-object {Export-Mailbox -id "$_" -TargetMailbox Rena.Hicken -TargetFolder "$_" -SubjectKeywords "Trojan" -Confirm:$false}

Get-Mailbox -Database House | Foreach-object {Export-Mailbox -id "$_" -PSTFolderPath C:\ -SubjectKeywords "Trojan" -Confirm:$false}

With outlook 2007 instant search, you could see who receive the message.