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How to restore emails from Exchange 2003 running under Windwos Small business Server 2003 from a Windows backup file.

One of my staff accidentally delete one sub folder under her outlook inbox and loss couple of emails.
Our email serve is ecahnge 2003 running under OS small business server 2003.
Our daily backup is using windows backup *.bfk from integrated backup way of Windows SBS2003.

How can I restore those emails from my daily backup? Thanks.

Justin

endital1097

check the properties of your mailbox store for deleted item retention
if that is configured enable the DumpsterAlwaysOn registry key to recover the messages

endital1097

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
Type DumpsterAlwaysOn, and then press ENTER.
Double-click DumpsterAlwaysOn.
Type 1 in the Value data area, click Decimal in the Base area, and then click OK.
Close Registry Editor.
Restart Outlook.

JJWAI

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Can I use that way on her workstation although the deleting action happened 2 weeks ago? Thanks.

endital1097

what is the deleted item retention on the mailbox store?
properties and limits tab

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JJWAI

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Thank you, AlwaysOn IT. My staff tried tools recovery right away when she deleted the emails. It did not work at that time. I think it maybe she deleted whole sub-folder under inbox which contain more emails. I double checked with her. I cannot use the tools recover for sure. Thank you for the help.

I have to go with restore from exchange backup.

Justin