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Perform a dial tone restore

Perform a dial tone restore - Microsoft Exchange Server Tutorial

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Perform a dial tone restore

- [Instructor] Using dial tone portability, users can have a temporary mailbox database for sending and receiving email, while their original mailbox is being restored or repaired. The temporary mailbox can be on the same Exchange 2019 Mailbox Server or on any other 2019 mailbox server in your organization. The process for using dial tone portability is called a dial tone recovery, and that involves creating an empty database on a mailbox server to replace a failed one. Here are the steps. First, we create an empty database. The users will all log in to their email, but they won't see any of their historical data. However, they can send and receive email at this point. We then redirect the email to the new database. All new email that's coming in from the outside or from the inside will start to populate into the user's mailboxes. Users can send and receive while waiting for the restore. There's no need to wait for the recovery. They can go ahead and continue working. After…

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