Bjoern,

I have seen many customers set up a special Exchange server just for
doing these IMR restores. It helps offload the processing so that
their production servers are not consumed by the IMR restores.
It also provides relief for the problem described below until a
final solution is available.

IBM is actively addressing the limitation and working
closely with Microsoft to get it resolved. Since this does
require a fix from Microsoft, I cannot tell you exactly when
a fix will be available, but there is something in the works.
We hope to see something fairly soon, but I cannot
guarantee it since it involves a hotfix from Microsoft.

Until then, you can look at the "Restore-Mailbox" Powershell
cmdlet or tools like FastBack for Exchange to help bridge you.
There are other 3rd-party tools that can extract mailbox data
directly from the .EDB file if you search them on the web.

Thanks,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 10/28/2010
07:48:48 AM:

>> From: Bjoern Rackoll <backup AT RRZ.UNI-HAMBURG DOT DE>
>> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
>> Date: 10/28/2010 07:49 AM
>> Subject: Re: TDP Exchange indiviual mailbox restore failure
>> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>>
>> Hi Del,
>>
>> > As Cory stated and is documented:
>> >
>> > "For Exchange 2010, both the Client Access (CAS) role and the Mailbox
>> > role must be installed on the machine where the
>> > Data Protection for Exchange mailbox restore is being performed."
>>
>> yes, I've read that document. Since we cannot go that road, I'm looking
>> for alternatives. Is there any other (probably even third-party) tool
>> that can be used to extract one user's mailbox from a complete Exchange
>> database restore?
>>
>> > This is a current limitation that will require a fix from Microsoft
>> > and possibly some updates to Data Protection for Exchange
>> > to resolve completely.
>> >
>> > IBM is working with Microsoft to resolve this limitation.
>>
>> Is there any timeframe for that? Any technote by Microsoft?
>>
>> > Until a "fix" is available, the only workaround is to perform
>> > the IMR restore on a machine that has the CAS role installed.
>>
>> The machine that has the CAS role installed has no mailbox role, and no
>> access to storage. That will stay that way.
>>
>> I'm sorry to say that IMR with CAS and mailbox roles separated are an
>> absolute requirement in our setup, so if there's no solution in a
>> not-too-long timeframe (and be it with some third-party tool), we have
>> to look for a completely different backup solution for Exchange.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Bjoern Rackoll
>> University of Hamburg
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