Restoring a deleted mailbox or items from a deleted mailbox

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You can use the Data Protection for Exchange Server mailbox restore operation to restore a mailbox (or items from a mailbox) that was deleted from an Exchange Server.

Before you begin

If you are restoring a mailbox that was deleted or re-created since the time of the backup, you must specify a temporary mailbox with enough storage capacity to accommodate all the mailbox items that you are restoring. Specify a temporary mailbox by setting the /TEMPMAILBOXAlias parameter. If the /TEMPMAILBOXAlias parameter is not set, the default mailbox is the logon user mailbox.

Procedure

Decide where the mailbox data from the deleted mailbox is to be restored.
With the mailbox restore operation, you have three options as follows:
  1. Restore the deleted mailbox data to the original location. Before you run the mailbox restore operation, re-create the mailbox that is using Exchange.
  2. Restore the deleted mailbox data into an active alternative mailbox in an online Exchange Server.
  3. Restore the deleted mailbox data into an Exchange Server personal folders (.pst) file.