Recover deleted emails

[Excalibur1701]

I have an Outlook 2007 user who has deleted most of her messages in her Inbox folder. She also has deleted her entire "Deleted" folder as well. And.....she went into "recover deleted items" and deleted them from there as well!!! (don't ask me why)

Are there any other options on retrieving these back from an Exchange 2003 server?

 

[pogi05]

There may some "unknown" way to do it, but for all I know once "Recovering Deleted Items" doesn't work, you'll have to restore from backup.

Do you have backups available? What type of data protection do you have on your network.

Thanks,

Chris

 

[Excalibur1701]

Yes...we do nightly backups using the standard NT backup. So I know that individual mailbox restores are not an option.

If we had a test exchange server, I know I could restore to that, then move the mailbox to a PST file or something. But we don't

I guess she's out of luck. Thanks for your response.

 

[RichardHuang]

Create a "recovery storage group" on your server, and then use NTback to restore the database to "recovery storage group".

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824126

How to use Recovery Storage Groups in Exchange Server 2003

 

[nsantin]

BTW, you should set the "DumpsterAlwaysOn" registry flag so users can recover deleted-deleted items. I push out this reg setting as part of my login script. Check the FAQ of this forum and look for marcdmarc's script.