Question : How to backup user's exchange mailbox and opened in different Outlook

Hi Experts!
A person is not working for our company anymore, however his boss wants a copy of this user's mailbox. What is the best way to pull out the user's mailbox and restore it into his boss' Outlook?

Thanks!


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Answer : How to backup user's exchange mailbox and opened in different Outlook

Is this users mailbox still present on the Exchange server and is the account still present in AD?

If this is the case then you can do two things:

1.Use Exmerge (2gb limit) and extract pst of this user and then import the same into a seperate folder into the boss's Outlook

In the below link start with the section "Configuring EXMERGE"

http://www.petri.co.il/brick_level_backup_of_mailboxes_by_using_exmerge.htm

2.Grant Full mailbox access on this users mailbox to the boss's account so that the boss can open this users mailbox in his own Outlook profile

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998707(EXCHG.65).aspx

If in case the mailbox is no longer present in Exchange and has been purged then you would need to restore from a backup to the RSG

 Restore the backup to RSG and then use Exmerge

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/ExMerge-Recover-Mailbox.html