Exchange Guid converter tool
In response to the amount of comments I’ve had (which are way way more than I was ever expecting!) on my Exchange Mailbox Recovery article, I’ve written a script to convert your guids from the bad format that exmerge gives you to the one thats required for updating the user account.
You can access it here. Please leave any feedback on this post.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Nice.
October 4th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
It’s just great, I have spending such a long time to come to this page…..
October 8th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Great tool and great site. I’ve spent days trying to solve this problem,
thanks for the help
November 9th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Bud, you are the Champion of Champions!!!
Really fantastic stuff.
you are a legend…
Cheers
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Great tool. You saved my day.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Great tool thx!
December 14th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Thanks so much for the information and the tool. It made recovering my email possible after I was forced to rebuild the server.
Excellent help.
Regards,
Chris
January 9th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
My hat off too you. You have saved me so much work. Very Grateful
January 9th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Thank you so much for this tool it saved my butt today!!!!!
January 11th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
This tool was perfect. We were not coming up with the right translation doing it
ourselves and this found our error real quickly. Thanks!
January 14th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Fantastic tool. Really helped me out in discovering how to fix the overall issue. Really appreciate you help.
January 24th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Excellent site and info.
Thanks!!!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Awesome tool! Thanks!
February 13th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Great work with the tool and write-up! An .EXE would be very useful as it could be included in a DR-toolbox
February 16th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
dude,
salamat!
February 20th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
This tool and web page have been extremely helpful to me.
Thanks a bunch!
February 21st, 2008 at 12:26 am
This took rocks, saved me heaps of time!
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Very, VERY nice work. The instructions you posted are extremely helpful.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
great tool and thanks for the info:
One thing I noticed while using the tool:
I neeed to convert the following mailbox guid:
qh2i\7EZ\BAG\A0\A7\11h\12\5D\EFB
I converted it manually using the table at http://www.asciitable.com/ and came up with the results:
71 68 32 69 7E 5A BA 47 A0 A7 11 48 12 5D EF 0B
Then I ran the guid through your tool to check. you’re tool converted it to:
71 68 32 69 7E 5a BA 47 A0 A7 11 48 12 5D EF 0B
Notice the lower case “a” in the 6th octet. Per the table, “Z” converts to “5A” with the capital “A” - how did you know to use a lowercase “a” because you were correct. I was not able to restore the mailbox until I changed it from a capital A to lower case a.
Also, thanks for the wonderful info, saved my butt.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
@Adrian
Interesting…. I don’t have anything specific about case in my code….
Stab in the dark - AD replication not picking up quick enough, thus not being able to tie the mailbox back as the guid wasn’t yet replicated whatever server was referenced… I don’t think the case should be important….
March 1st, 2008 at 12:12 am
I wrote the same converter for work in perl and then found your website. It helped as we did not know how to handle 4
charters between the slashes. Thanks.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Thanks for the tool! It eliminates going cross-eyed on www.asciitable.com and typos.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Your tool worked AWESOME and saved my butt on this high-priority mail restore. Thanks!!!!!
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
You saved me about a days worth of work. Thanks for the instructions and the tool.
Great work.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:56 pm
You have no idea how much you have helped me out! Thank you!!!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Mate,
this thing saved my ass in such a huge way i am eternally grateful
May 9th, 2008 at 10:57 am
You really saved my calculating speed today!!! Thanks a lot!
May 15th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Thanks for providing this valuable information! Until I needed to do this mxExchMailboxGuid modification, I actually had success in restoring a purged mailbox by using ADSIedit to change the msExchRestore attribute value from True to Not Set, turning the RSG into a normal Storage Group, and then attaching mailbox to a non-Excchange enabled dummy user account in AD created just for this.
But I ran into a problem when the user CN of the purged mailbox I restored was created again in AD (the mailbox purge was accidental). There was an error about a conflicting mail address already being out there.
This is where your information SAVED me. This is the document Microsoft should have created. Thanks very much. When I fill up on PayPal dollars, I will be donating (shortly).
BRAVO!!
May 17th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Great Sir,
It is solved my problem .
Thanks a Lot
June 19th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Thanks!!!
I surfed the whole net to finally find you!!
It’s been great. You almost saved my life
thanks again
June 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Fantastic!
Thank you so much. You saved my bacon.
July 1st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
This utility is great , thanks
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
Thanks
Really this is a great tool,
July 15th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Great job , saved me with this sweet little gem!
July 30th, 2008 at 4:58 am
thanks a lot. this is a great tool.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Worked perfectly!
August 15th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
This is a great tool to go along with a gem of an article explaining how to recover purged mailboxes. I only wish I found this earlier.
September 30th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Thank you very much.
Thank for your tool and guide.
It let me know more on Exchange.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 am
YOU ROCK!!!! I CAN’T SAY IT ENOUGH! With an ill timed server upgrade to new hardware and then suddenly deciding to also change to VMWare ESXi and Server 2008/Exchange 2007, I have been basically down for about 2 weeks now. The catalyst to cause all of this was that my old server took a massive dump and would no longer let me log in. All I had was a backup of the RAW DB files. To make a long story hopefully shorter, it was looking like my only option was to spend hundreds of dollars to purchase software to convert the RAW DB files from 2003 to Exchange 2007 OR lose all my e-mails, contacts, hundreds of tasks, calendar appointments, etc.
Thanks for saving my @** with your article and this time saving tool!
I owe you one big time.
October 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Thanks, both your article and the converter where a great help in a difficult restore job.
Saved me a lot of tima and restored my faith in mankind
Regs.
Hafsteinn