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I recommend using some sort of standard mailbox provisioning philosophy in assigning mailboxes to the different stores on your Exchange servers, then documenting and tracking these configurations in a central Exchange configuration history document (you do have change management procedures in place for Exchange, right?).
As an example, you could assign all users with surnames A-F to store 1 on server 1, and so on. Or, you could provision all users in a given office to the same store. Then, when you're recovering mailboxes for whatever reason, you'll be able to figure out which server the mailbox was on simply by what you know about the user.
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