public store does not have correct distinguished name

[steve@mcmillaninc.com]

We have a single Small Buisness server 2003 with Exchange. It has been
running fine but, we needed to change from raid 1 to raid 5.

I stopped all exchange services and manually copied all of the databases
from the server to an external drive. I used exmerge to export all of the
mailboxes but, only have a copy of pub1.edb

We switched from Raid 1 to Raid 5, rebuilt the server from scratch and
re-imported all of the mail boxes using exmerge.

However, copying the pub1.edb file back did not work. I get an error when
trying to mount the store that the Distinquished name is different.

I have been looking but, can not find a way to re-import that pub1. We only
have one server so, the migration tool does not sound like it will work. I
dont want to use the legacy tool for fear of corrupting all of the mail
databases.

Any ideas? How can I successfully import the old pub1.edb with a different
distinguished name?

[Brian O'Neil]

You will have to change it ADSI Edit
Install the Windows support tools and then follow this article

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822676

The article tells you which objects in AD to change, be careful with it
though, and only change the ones you need for the effected database files.

-Brian

[steve@mcmillaninc.com]

Brian,
Thanks for the tip. The ADSI tool gives me an error when I try to edit the
distinquished name. It says I can not edit the attribute as it is owned by
the system.

I could not figure out how to set the security so that I could edit the
attribute.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Steve