You First install a new exchange 5.5 server in a new site and org.Preferable put this server in a seperate LAN from the production LAN. I assume you have a backup software that backs up the IS as an online database. Install the same backup software in the new server. Then restore the IS to the new server. Depending on the Backup app. you may have to specify the new server name to restore the database. By default online backups and restore of IS and Ds always look for the server with same name in the network. Once you restore the IS, restart the server. You services should startup. In case is IS service fails, run ISINTEG -patch on priv.edb. Once IS starts up, you need to run the DS/IS consistency adjuster. select ALL inconsistencies, and select synchronize with directory and create new entries for mailboxes....... This will take a few minutes depending on your IS size. Once done, you should see all mailboxes in you GAL. Then you assign your exchange service account as the primary owner of the mailbox you want to recover. Logon as service account, extract entire mailbox to a PST. Then use the PST to recover the mailbox in the production server. Regards, Raj -----Original Message----- From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:Syed.Muqeem@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: February 05, 2002 11:39 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Help Please!!!! Importance: High http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hello to all Exchange Guru's I have to restore the mail of a single user from the information store.... my presumption .. its not possible without restoring the entire information store... and the backup has been performed on ArcServe without the brock level option. I want to restore the entire information store (If it comes to that ) on a different machien that has entirely different hardware specs from the actual machine. I have recreated a compleltely different active directory..now I need help as to how to proceed.. can I install exchange on that machine with the new active directory (new domain contrller in a physoically different network) and restore then install exchange and then restore the information store on that machine...?? Please help ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: psraj@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')