This seems to have been a problem with the Directory not being restored correctly. We restored the Directory by itself but then that seemed to cause the information store to became corrupt. After working with a MS tech for 4 hours we finally got the DS running and then had to restore the IS again. All is okay now but what a pain. I wish I had gotten this advice before we did all that... it possibly could have saved us a lot of time and the $300 for the MS tech. Oh well. Guess that's what you get when you're a newbie... Thanks to all that replied, -Alex -----Original Message----- From: James Barr [mailto:Jamesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:31 PM Subject: RE: restore help In exchange admin highlight your exchange server and click properties. Goto th advanced tab and click consistency adjuster Check all the check boxes and say ok to adjust all inconsistencies. Then go into each mailbox and you will see that the Primary Windows NT account box is empty. reattach the mailbox to the user account and then you should be able to get into the mailbox. -----Original Message----- From: Alex [mailto:alex.mckeown@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 07 June 2002 02:23 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] restore help http://www.MSExchange.org/ - Re-Vamped! We just restored our information store after our server crashed. We finally got the information store service to start after running the Isinteg -patch. Everything seemed fine... the problem is, there are no mailboxes in the Server Recipients container. Weird thing is that we can see all the mailboxes listed in the Mailbox Resources? Obviously, Outlook can't connect to the server? Does anyone have any thoughts?? Thanks, -Alex ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: jamesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to