Same Server 2013 Disaster Recovery using Database Portability

Hi,
I need to rebuild a 2012 Server with AD (Domain controller) + Exchange 2013 starting totally from scratch.
I do have a copy of the clearly unmounted Mailbox Database.
For whatever reasons, the new server MUST use the old Computer Name and the old AD domain configured as a new forest on the new server. So, the old DC was DC.mydomain.com and it has to be the same on the new machine.
I did the AD configuration respecting these constrains.
When it comes to Exchange 2013, I did a clean install of the 2013 CU3 (same as it was on the old server) and used the same organization name (as required by Database Portability). Then, I followed the procedure reported at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876926%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx
and sadly, when I run the
Get-Mailbox -Database <SourceDatabase>
I get no results, even if the DB contains several mailboxes.
I double checked every step of my procedure also according to different forum/blog posts I found googling but no luck.
Please, give me an advice.
Any help is appreciated.

I believe that you might be able to mount an EDB file under the circumstances you describe.
Get-Mailbox does an Active Directory lookup of users, and returns the mailboxes it finds. Simply restoring the database does not populate all the data in AD with the mail-enabled attributes. You might be able to do that by using Connect-Mailbox
to connect the user account with the disabled mailbox in the database.
So, if you can get the database (with no log files) mounted using Mount-Database -AcceptDataLoss, then you might be able to use Connect-Mailbox to connect the newly-created user accounts with the disabled mailboxes in the database you mounted.
I believe this should work, but I've never had to do it myself, so I can't promise anything.
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