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Administrators can search for items that are purged (hard-deleted) by a user by using the Recover Deleted Items feature in Outlook or Outlook on the web. They can also search for items deleted by an automated process, such as the retention policy assigned to user mailboxes. In these situations, the purged items can't be recovered by a user. But administrators can recover purged messages if the deleted item retention period for the item hasn't expired.
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In addition to using this procedure to search for and recover deleted items, you can also use this procedure to search for items residing in other folders in the mailbox and to delete items from the source mailbox (also known as search and purge).
What you need to know before you begin?
- Procedures in this topic require specific permissions. See each procedure for its permissions information.
- Single item recovery should be enabled for a mailbox before the item you want to recover is deleted. In Exchange Server, single item recovery is disabled when a mailbox is created. For more information, see Enable or disable single item recovery for a mailbox.
- To search for and recover items, you need the following information:
- Source mailbox: The mailbox being searched.
- Target mailbox: The discovery mailbox in which messages will be recovered. Exchange Server Setup creates a default discovery mailbox. In Exchange Online, a discovery mailbox is also created by default. If required, you can create additional discovery mailboxes. For details, see Create a Discovery Mailbox.NoteWhen using the Search-Mailbox cmdlet, you can also specify a target mailbox that isn't a discovery mailbox. However, you can't specify the same mailbox as the source and target mailbox.
- Search criteria: Criteria include sender or recipient, or keywords (words or phrases) in the message.
Step 1: Search for and recover missing items
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the 'In-Place eDiscovery' entry in the Messaging policy and compliance permissions in Exchange Server topic.
Note
You can use In-Place eDiscovery in the Exchange admin center (EAC) to search for missing items. However, when using the EAC, you can't restrict the search to the Recoverable Items folder. All messages matching your search parameters will be returned even if they're not deleted. After they're recovered to the specified discovery mailbox, you may need to review the search results and remove unnecessary messages before recovering the remaining messages to the user's mailbox or exporting them to a .pst file. For details about how to use the EAC to perform an In-Place eDiscovery search, see Create an In-Place eDiscovery search in Exchange Server.
The first step in the recovery process is to search for messages in the source mailbox. Use one of the following methods to search a user mailbox and copy messages to a discovery mailbox.
Use the Exchange Management Shell to search for messages
This example searches for messages in April Stewart's mailbox that meet the following criteria:
- Sender: Ken Kwok
- Keyword: Seattle
Note
When using the Search-Mailbox cmdlet, you can scope the search by using the SearchQuery parameter to specify a query formatted using Keyword Query Language (KQL). You can also use the SearchDumpsterOnly switch to search only items in the Recoverable Items folder.
For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Search-Mailbox.
How do you know this worked?
To verify that you have successfully searched the messages you want to recover, log on to the discovery mailbox you selected as the target mailbox and review the search results.
Step 2: Restore recovered items
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the 'In-Place eDiscovery' entry in the Messaging policy and compliance permissions in Exchange Server topic.
Note
You can't use the EAC to restore recovered items.
After messages have been recovered to a discovery mailbox, you can restore them to the user's mailbox by using the Search-Mailbox cmdlet. In Exchange Server, you can also use the New-MailboxExportRequest and New-MailboxImportRequest cmdlets to export the messages to or import the messages from a .pst file.
Use the Exchange Management Shell to restore messages
This example restores messages to April Stewart's mailbox and deletes them from the Discovery Search Mailbox.
For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Search-Mailbox.
How do you know this worked?
To verify that you have successfully recovered messages to the user's mailbox, have the user review messages in the target folder you specified in the above command.
Use the Exchange Management Shell to export and import messages from a .pst file
In Exchange Server, you can export contents from a mailbox to a .pst file and import the contents of a .pst file to a mailbox. To learn more about mailbox import and export, see Mailbox imports and exports in Exchange Server. You can't perform this task in Exchange Online.
This example uses the following settings to export messages from the folder April Stewart Recovery in the Discovery Search Mailbox to a .pst file:
- Mailbox: Discovery Search Mailbox
- Source folder: April Stewart Recovery
- ContentFilter: April travel plans
- PST file path: MYSERVERHelpDeskPstAprilStewartRecovery.pst
For detailed syntax and parameter information, see New-MailboxExportRequest.
This example uses the following settings to import messages from a .pst file to the folder Recovered By Helpdesk in April Stewart's mailbox:
- Mailbox: April Stewart
- Target folder: Recovered By Helpdesk
- PST file path: MYSERVERHelpDeskPstAprilStewartRecovery.pst
For detailed syntax and parameter information, see New-MailboxImportRequest.
How do you know this worked?
To verify that you have successfully exported messages to a .pst file, use Outlook to open the .pst file and inspect its contents. To verify that you have successfully imported messages from the .pst file, have the user inspect the contents of the target folder you specified in the above command.
More information
- The ability to recover deleted items is enabled by single item recovery, which lets an administrator recover a message that's been purged by a user or by retention policy as long as the deleted item retention period hasn't expired for that item. To learn more about single item recovery, see Recoverable Items folder in Exchange Server.
- In Exchange Server, a mailbox database is configured to retain deleted items for 14 days, by default. You can configure deleted item retention settings for a mailbox or mailbox database. For more information, see:
- Users can recover a deleted item if it hasn't been purged and if the deleted item retention period for that item hasn't expired. If users need to recover deleted items from the Recoverable Items folder, point them to the following topics:
- This topic shows you how to use the Search-Mailbox cmdlet to search for and recover missing items. If you use this cmdlet, you can search only one mailbox at a time. If you want to search multiple mailboxes at the same time, you can use In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange Server in the Exchange admin center (EAC) or the New-ComplianceSearch cmdlet in Windows PowerShell.
- In addition to using this procedure to search for and recover deleted items, you can also use a similar procedure to search for items in user mailboxes and then delete those items from the source mailbox. For more information, see Search for and delete messages in Exchange Server.
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-->The Recoverable Items folder (known in earlier versions of Exchange as the dumpster) exists to protect from accidental or malicious deletions and to facilitate discovery efforts commonly undertaken before or during litigation or investigations.
How you clean up a user's Recoverable Items folder depends on whether the mailbox is placed on In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold, or had single item recovery enabled:
- If a mailbox isn't placed on In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold or doesn't have single item recovery enabled, you can simply delete items from the Recoverable Items folder. After items are deleted, you can't use single item recovery to recover them.
- If the mailbox is placed on In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold or has single item recovery enabled, you'll want to preserve the mailbox data until the hold is removed or single item recovery is disabled. In this case, you need to perform more detailed steps to clean up the Recoverable Items folder.
To learn more about In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold, see In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold in Exchange Server. To learn more about single item recovery, see 'Single Item Recovery' in Recoverable Items folder in Exchange Server.
What do you need to know before you begin?
- You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the 'Delete mailbox content' entry in the Messaging policy and compliance permissions in Exchange Server topic.
- Because incorrectly cleaning up the Recoverable Items folder can result in data loss, it's important that you're familiar with the Recoverable Items folder and the impact of removing its contents. Before performing this procedure, we recommend that you review the information in Recoverable Items folder in Exchange Server.
- You can't use the Exchange admin center (EAC) to perform these procedures. You must use the Exchange Management Shell. To learn how to open the Exchange Management Shell in your on-premises Exchange organization, see Open the Exchange Management Shell.
- For information about keyboard shortcuts that may apply to the procedures in this topic, see Keyboard shortcuts in the Exchange admin center.
Having problems? Ask for help in the Exchange forums. Visit the forums at: Exchange Server, Exchange Online, or Exchange Online Protection.
Use the Exchange Management Shell to delete items from the Recoverable Items folder for mailboxes that aren't placed on hold or don't have single item recovery enabled
This example permanently deletes items from the user Gurinder Singh's Recoverable Items folder and also copies the items to the GurinderSingh-RecoverableItems folder in the Discovery Search Mailbox (a discovery mailbox created by Exchange Setup).
Note
To delete items from the mailbox without copying them to another mailbox, use the preceding command without the TargetMailbox and TargetFolder parameters.
For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Search-Mailbox.
Use the Exchange Management Shell to clean up the Recoverable Items folder for mailboxes that are placed on hold or have single item recovery enabled
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You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the 'Delete mailbox content' entry in the Messaging policy and compliance permissions in Exchange Server topic.
If a mailbox reaches its Recoverable Items quota, we recommend that you raise the quota and not delete items from the folder. You can also monitor events in the Application log related to the Recoverable Items warning quota and take necessary actions such as raising the quota or investigating the growth of the Recoverable Items folder for mailboxes that reach the warning quota.
If storage constraints or similar issues prevent you from raising the Recoverable Items quota, we recommend that you first copy data from the user's Recoverable Items folder to another mailbox before you delete messages. If you're deleting items due to storage constraints on one volume, you can copy items to a mailbox located on a volume that has adequate storage.
This procedure copies items from Gurinder Singh's Recoverable Items folder to the GurinderSingh-RecoverableItems folder in the Discovery Search Mailbox. Before you copy and delete items from the Recoverable Items folder, you should first perform several steps to make sure items aren't deleted from the Recoverable Items folder. After you copy items to a discovery or backup mailbox and clean up the folder, you can revert to the mailbox's previous settings.
- Retrieve the following quota settings. Be sure to note the values so you can revert to these settings after cleaning up the Recoverable Items folder:
- RecoverableItemsQuota
- RecoverableItemsWarningQuota
- ProhibitSendQuota
- ProhibitSendReceiveQuota
- UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults
- RetainDeletedItemsFor
- UseDatabaseRetentionDefaults
NoteIf the UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults parameter is set to$true
, the previous quota settings aren't applied. The corresponding quota settings configured on the mailbox database are applied, even if individual mailbox settings are populated. - Retrieve the mailbox access settings for the mailbox. Be sure to note these settings for later.
- Retrieve the current size of the Recoverable Items folder. Note the size so you can raise the quotas in Step 6.
- Disable client access to the mailbox to make sure no changes can be made to mailbox data for the duration of this procedure.
- To make sure no items are deleted from the Recoverable Items folder, increase the Recoverable Items quota, increase the Recoverable Items warning quota, and set the deleted item retention period to a value higher than the current size of the user's Recoverable Items folder. This is particularly important for preserving messages for mailboxes placed on In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold. We recommend raising these settings to twice their current size.
- Stop the Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistants service and prevent it from starting on the Mailbox server by running the following commands:The effect of this command is to stop the Managed Folder Assistant on the Mailbox server.ImportantIf the mailbox resides on a mailbox database in a database availability group (DAG), you must disable the Managed Folder Assistant on each DAG member that hosts a copy of the database. If the database fails over to another server, this prevents the Managed Folder Assistant on that server from deleting mailbox data.
- Disable single item recovery and remove the mailbox from Litigation Hold.ImportantAfter you run this command, it may take up to one hour to disable single item recovery or Litigation Hold. We recommend that you perform the next step only after this period has elapsed.
- Copy items from the Recoverable Items folder to a folder in the Discovery Search Mailbox and delete the contents from the source mailbox.If you need to delete only messages that match specified conditions, use the SearchQuery parameter to specify the conditions. This example deletes messages that have the string 'Your bank statement' in the Subject field.NoteIt isn't required to copy items to the Discovery Search Mailbox. You can copy messages to any mailbox. However, to prevent access to potentially sensitive mailbox data, we recommend copying messages to a mailbox that has access restricted to authorized records managers. By default, access to the default Discovery Search Mailbox is restricted to members of the Discovery Management role group. For details, see In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange Server.
- If the mailbox was placed on Litigation Hold or had single item recovery enabled earlier, enable these features again.ImportantAfter you run this command, it may take up to one hour to enable single item recovery or Litigation Hold. We recommend that you enable the Managed Folder Assistant and allow client access (Steps 11 and 12) only after this period has elapsed.
- Revert the following quotas to the values noted in Step 1:
- RecoverableItemsQuota
- RecoverableItemsWarningQuota
- ProhibitSendQuota
- ProhibitSendReceiveQuota
- UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults
- RetainDeletedItemsFor
- UseDatabaseRetentionDefaults
In this example, the mailbox is removed from retention hold, the deleted item retention period is reset to the default value of 14 days, and the Recoverable Items quota is configured to use the same value as the mailbox database. If the values you noted in Step 1 are different, you must use the preceding parameters to specify each value and set the UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults parameter to$false
. If the RetainDeletedItemsForand UseDatabaseRetentionDefaults parameters were previously set to a different value, you must also revert them to the values noted in Step 1. - Configure the Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistants service to start automatically and start it on the Mailbox server by running the following commands:
- Enable client access to the mailbox by running the following command:
For detailed syntax and parameter information, see the following topics:
How do you know this worked?
To verify that you have successfully cleaned up the Recoverable Items folder of a mailbox, use Get-MailboxFolderStatistics cmdlet the check the size of the Recoverable Items folder.
This example retrieves the size of the Recoverable Items folder and its subfolders and an item count in the folder and each subfolder.