Cannot access public folders in new domain

[InIT4theMoney]

We were recently contacted by a new client that had suffered from the hardware failure of the c:\ drive in their Windows 2000 Small Business Server. Thankfully all their data was on a separate hard disk (including their Exchange 2000 server databases). Unfortunately the client had no backups (nobody had checked thay were running!) so we were unable to restore their original user database.

Having installed a new hard disk and re-installed SBS-2000 from scratch, we manually re-entered all the clients users details amd were able to successfully re-attach all the orphaned private mailboxes to the new user accounts. The problem we are having is with the client's public folders. Whilst these are all listed in the 'Public Folders' container in System Manager, none of them is visible to the users. If we try to go into the properties page for any of the public folders we get an error message saying 'There is no such object on the server. Facility: LDAP Provider. ID No: 80072030'

Does anyone know if there is a way to give the users access to what are effectively now 'orphaned' public folders? Or any way to extract the data from them? Any suggestions you may have would be very much appreciated.

Ian W

 

[jbud]

Without an AD backup, this is going to be difficult. You essentially need to repopulate all of the entries in AD for the public folders that are stored in the stm and edb files. I don't think this is possible, but others may correct me.

If it were me, I would talk to these people:

http://www.ontrack.com/powercontrols/techspec.asp