We got hit with a nasty malware infection and want to rebuild our network from the ground up, moving to a VM environment in server 2012 and starting over from scratch. Scorched earth.
We currently have an exchange 2007 SP3 server. Is it possible to restore our 2007 mail store directly to the 2013 server? We want to avoid connecting our old network/domain to the new one at all costs.
If direct restore isn't possible, what steps would be needed to restore the mail store and retain all user mailboxes?
Thanks for any advise.