How To: Restore a removed Mailbox Database

After a Mailbox Database is deleted, the actual database file (.edb) is still there. To recreate the original database from this file, do the following:

1. Create a new empty mailbox database, using the New-MailboxDatabase command
2. Enable "Over-written by Restore", using Set-MailBoxDatabase
3. Move the old database files to the same location as the new database
4. Mount the database
5. If restoring on a new exchange server, run Move-Mailbox - ConfigurationOnly

see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998340.aspx

How To: send alert to distribution group in WSS 3.0

1. Go to Exchange server
2. Create a Distribution Group
3. Set Delivery Restriction to no authentication
4. Note the email address
5. Go to People and Groups
6. Add a domain group such as Domain Users
7. Edit E-Mail field with noted email address

now add alerts with this email address.