"Let's migrate to the Cloud the most recent emails only... we won't ever need all that older crap!" - CEO, 2014, 10 years ago.

"... legal team just asked us to produce all the 'older crap', as we have been sued. If you could do that by Monday morning, that would be wonderful". - CEO, 2014, today.

Long story short, what is the fastest way to recover the data of a single mailbox from an Exchange 2003 "MDBDATA" folder?

Please, please, don't tell me I have to rebuild the entire Active Directory domain controller + all that Exchange 2003 infrastructure.

Signed,

a really fed up sysadmin