XADM: Restoring Individual Mailboxes, Messages, or Folders

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1. Install Microsoft Exchange Server on another computer, and select Create a New Site. The same computer name is not required, but must have the same organization and site name as the tape being restored.
   
   
2. Using Windows NT Backup, restore the information store and type the alternate server name for the destination server in the Restore Information dialog box.
3. In the Administrator program, in the Advanced Properties of the Server Object, click the Consistency Adjuster button. Under the Private Information Store section of the Operations group box, click Synchronize with the directory, and create new directory entries for mailboxes that do not have a corresponding directory entry. Under the Filter group box, click All Inconsistencies, and then click OK.
   
   NOTE: You must click OK again to acknowledge the warning dialog box and proceed.
4. Give yourself permission for the mailbox you want to restore from or for any mailbox if you are restoring a public folder.
5. Log on to the server with a Microsoft Exchange Client.
6. To add the Personal Folders service, click Tools, click Services, click Add, click Personal Folder, and then drag and drop the Public older data to the .pst file.
7. Log on to an online server with a profile that also points to the .pst file used in the previous step.
8. Move the messages from the .pst file onto the online server.