Restoring deleted items from mailboxes
One of the most common requests that Exchange administrators are asked to perform is to restore deleted items from a user's mailbox. In previous versions of Exchange, there were usually a couple of ways to handle this. First, you can use your traditional brick-level backup solution to restore individual items in a mailbox. Of course, there is also the more time-consuming process of exporting data from a mailbox located in a recovery database. Exchange 2010 reduced the complexity of restoring deleted items by implementing a feature called Single Item Recovery. When this feature is enabled, administrators can recover the purged data from an end user's mailbox using the Search-Mailbox
cmdlet. In this recipe, we will take a look at how this restore process works from within the Exchange Management Shell.
How to do it...
Let's look at how to restore deleted items from mailboxes using the following steps:
- If you have not already done so, you will need to use...