Individual Mailbox Restores

[GVN]

I'm having a problem setting up individual mailbox restores. Apparently the previous Administrator never set them up? I tried by following the directions given by Microsoft at

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/RMD.mspx,

but it is very confusing. Has anyone ever set these up before?

Thanks,

GVN

 

[markdmac]

Let me ask, why you feel this is even necessary? If you delete an ID by mistake you can immediately link the mailbox to a new account in Exchange System Manager.

If you users are just looking to recover permanently deleted email they can do that too up to the retention period you have specified in ESM. By default your users deleted items are saved for 14 days and deleted mailboxes willo not be purged for 30 days.

The info you are trying to follow is more for restoring from a disaster.

If you have people leave the company, I recommend that you export their mailbox using ExMerge. You can then access that mail for reference from any ID you give access to the PST file. You can then safely delete the ID without having to worry about the mail since you have it saved int he PST which can be archived to tape, CD or DVD for long term retention.

Refer to the following KB.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274343

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[GVN]

A lady deleted a folder within her Outlook and the retention period had already passed, because the moron before me had the retention periods set to 3 days!!! Why he did this, I'll never know.

So, is there any way to restore that folder now, even if I got Individual mailbox restores setup? Or would it already have to be setup that way BEFORE she had deleted that folder?

Thanks,

GVN

 

[markdmac]

Unfortunatley it would have to have been setup before the deletion as it has now since been purged.

Regarding the Recover Deleted Items, that only works for the Deleted Items folder by default. If you run this script on the workstations it will let you recover items permanently deleted from any folder such as doing a permanent delete from the Inbox.

Note that Outlook clients using Cached mode will see a few minutes delay before the permanently deleted items will show up in the list.

I run this script on every user I manage to help with these kind of "oops" scenarios.

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'==========================================================================
'
' NAME: DumpsterAlwaysOn.vbs
'
' AUTHOR: Mark D. MacLachlan , itSynergy
' URL: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.TheSpidersParlor.com[/URL]
' COPYRIGHT (c) 2005 All Rights Reserved
' DATE  : 10/14/2005
'
' COMMENT: Allows recovery of deleted items from all Outlook Folders.
'
'==========================================================================[/green]
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Dim path
Set WSHShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
path = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options\"

WSHShell.RegWrite path & "DumpsterAlwaysOn","1","REG_DWORD"

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark