Well, first thing first,
How did you back up exchange? If you used an bu method that allows you to restore individual mailboxes, then simply recreate the mailbox and redirect the mail to it.
If you backup using a different method, IE using ntbackup, then it is a little harder.
You essentially need to build a new machine, same exact name as your exchange server, and then restore the backup.
Then using outlook on the same machine, connect to the mailbox, export the mail into a pst, move the pst someplace where it can be seen (cd/srvr)
and import it into a mailbox.
Hiding people; If you go into the advanced tab of the mailbox, you will see a "hide" check box. Selecting it makes their mailbox disappear from the GAB (also in the exch admin, to see them go view/hidden)
A tip: When ever we get rid of someone, I always do several things. 2 of them are taking all of their files from their personal machine and their home directory on the server, and exporting all of theirmail into a pst. Then taking all of that and burn 3 cd's.
1 cd goes to the noc cd folder archive
1 cd goes to offsite cd folder archive
1 cd goes to their supervisor
