Comments on: Recover lost email months ago in Outlook 2007 w/Exchange 2007 sp1

By: julie178

julie178 — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:14:33 +0000

Some exchange recovery tools can recover deleted mails, but for the case that the mails have been deleted several months ago, I am not sure whether these tools can help to recover them, you may have a try.
Detailed information about exchange recovery tools: http://www.datanumen.com/aexr/problems/exchange-deleted.htm
Julie

By: lostnconfusd

lostnconfusd — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:30:10 +0000

I am IT veteran but new to Exchange and have two probably very easy questions about this and then maybe a tougher one…1) Where do you set the “current deleted emails” that Spen815 is referring to is set to 7 days? 2) What are you both talking about when you say Exchange defrags? and then 3) I am making a nightly bkf file of my entire Exchange environment with the purpose of being able to restore emails if needed. Can anybody point me to a resource that describes the process of actually using this BKF file to do a restore of an email? (specifically without impacting the live/production (working) email that others are enjoying? (the scenario I’m describing is one where I have a person that wipes their email out (maybe one, maybe a few, maybe all) and I need to restore their OST, but I don’t want to bring down my entire building to do it.

By: technochic

technochic — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:36:04 +0000

If you are not doing backups then you need to seriously review your backup policy. Laws are in place which require a corporation to present email if an investigation is required by law. Sometimes mail from as far back as 5 years is requested during a discovery inquiry. To protect your company from lawsuits for not being able to produce email I would bring your backup policies up to date and keep them current starting immediately.