I have been asked to find emails in a mailbox that hasn't been used in 15
months. They are not on any backups since we don't keep them for more than a
year.

The user hasn't logged on to the pc since the mailbox was deleted and the ad
account was deleted (obviously). we run Outlook in cached mode here so I'm
wondering if this is possible. Can I get the password that the user was
using (if the remember), unhook the pc from the network and log on using
stored credentials in windows xp and pull up outlook to get the local copy
of the mailbox to come up. Then grab the messages I need from there?

any ideas?

thanks,
Matt

I don't see how that will work, either, if the AD account has been
deleted...without the mailbox on a backup tape anywhere, you wouldn't even
be able to use anything like Quest's Recovery Manager for Exchange to
extract the data...

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Susan Conkey [MVP]



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I have been asked to find emails in a mailbox that hasn't been used in 15
months. They are not on any backups since we don't keep them for more than
a
year.

The user hasn't logged on to the pc since the mailbox was deleted and the
ad
account was deleted (obviously). we run Outlook in cached mode here so I'm
wondering if this is possible. Can I get the password that the user was
using (if the remember), unhook the pc from the network and log on using
stored credentials in windows xp and pull up outlook to get the local copy
of the mailbox to come up. Then grab the messages I need from there?

any ideas?

thanks,
Matt

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MB typed:
I have been asked to find emails in a mailbox that hasn't been used
in 15 months. They are not on any backups since we don't keep them
for more than a year.

The user hasn't logged on to the pc since the mailbox was deleted and
the ad account was deleted (obviously). we run Outlook in cached mode
here so I'm wondering if this is possible. Can I get the password
that the user was using (if the remember), unhook the pc from the
network and log on using stored credentials in windows xp and pull up
outlook to get the local copy of the mailbox to come up. Then grab
the messages I need from there?
any ideas?

thanks,
Matt

Sure, you can try that.