Exchange 2003 contacts restore from backup

[chrispe455]

I have a user the we host there email. Somehow all of his contacts have been deleted. I am looking for options to be able to restore them from a backup maybe, but really dont know where to start. Where are the contacts stored at? In there own file?

Can anyone help me here?

 

[58sniper]

Contacts are part of the mailbox - just a subfolder of it, really. If they deleted them, and they are not in the Deleted Items, they may be in the Dumpster. The user could restore them by going to Deleted Items, then Tools>Recover Deleted Items.

If they are not there, best bet is one of two scenarios: restore the mailbox to the Recovery Storage group and export them with Exmerge, or use a third party tool to rip them out of an unmounted copy of the database.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP

 

[ntinlin]

If you think they have been Hard Deleted directly from contacts folder then do a search for DumpsterAlwaysOn.

This allows you to access the hidden Dumpster items for each individual folder such as Inbox, Sent Items etc. not just Deleted Items.

Neill