How to recover 'In-Place' Archive

You did not mention what version of Exchange you are running, but here is a link to the instructions for Exchange 2013

https://technewskb.com/reconnect-disabled-archive-mailbox-exchange-2013/ 

Yes, I am sorry. I have Exchange 2016.

I disabled by accident and I have re-enabled. 

The instructions for 2013 should still work. It was different for 2010. 

I do not see the mailbox listed in any of the DB. I went to Mailboxes - and then selected ... then connect a mailbox, however do not see it listed. 

Sysnimda,
I want you to open exchange Management Shell and run the below command using the users email displayName

Get-Recipient "enterhisdisplaynamehere" -IncludeSoftDeletedRecipients | Select Identity,ExchangeGuid,ArchiveGuid,primarysmtpaddress,when*


Paste the info here

Identity           : mydomain/Company/HQ/Users/IS/User Name
ExchangeGuid       : a71acf1e-0dbe-45fa-88da-efcc8600049e
ArchiveGuid        : 1e7097c0-806b-4001-af22-f18dfaac7b98
PrimarySmtpAddress : username@mydomain
WhenMailboxCreated : 7/27/2016 8:03:11 PM
WhenSoftDeleted    :
WhenChanged        : 5/28/2020 11:07:40 AM
WhenCreated        : 7/27/2016 3:35:06 PM
WhenChangedUTC     : 5/28/2020 4:07:40 PM
WhenCreatedUTC     : 7/27/2016 8:35:06 PM

THANK YOU FOX! 

Thanks Fox! FYI: I disabled and then reenabled it, so not sure if this changes anything. 

It looks like it's good.  If the archive is not showing up in his outlook we have to do something else.  
Do you now see the archive, yes or no?

No it's not showing up in Outlook. It is actually my boss. :( THANKS!

Fair enough
1. Get your boss' samaccountname
2. Open up a powershell session as your domain admin account on a domain controller
3 Run the following commands line by line  you can copy and paste.

[guid]$guid = "1e7097c0-806b-4001-af22-f18dfaac7b98"

get-Aduser "enterhissamaccountname" | set-aduser -Replace @{msExchArchiveguid=$guid.tobytearray()}

Ok, I did it. It's just on the screen -- thinking?

Ok, one second....

did you press enter after you wrote the second line?  I see the cursor is still sitting there.

It took it...how can I confirm? THANKS! Fingers crossed!

Let's give it about 10 minutes...then have him restart outlook.

In the mean time run the below command in Exchange Management Shell (insert his email address)

Test-ArchiveConnectivity -UserSmtp gsingh@contoso.com

Fox...thank you so much! What did we actually do here. I apologize I am still learning. I thought it was lost since I didn't see any disconnected mail accounts. What I know is 'archive' db is set for all in place archiving. I freaked cause I thought by re-enabling the feature some how wiped the original mailbox.

Is it back?

RunspaceId               : a1fa910a-4734-4449-8c5d-9ca01204bfee
Identity                 :
PrimaryMRMConfiguration  :
PrimaryLastProcessedTime :
ArchiveDomain            :
ArchiveDatabase          : archive
ArchiveMRMConfiguration  :
ArchiveLastProcessedTime :
ComplianceConfiguration  : ElcV2, ValidArchiveDatabase
ItemMRMProperties        :
Result                   : Successfully logged on to the users Archive mailbox.
Error                    :
IsValid                  : True
ObjectState              : New

My boss is trying right now...I checked exchange and I still see same space/utilization and not same as old mailbox. 

Run the below command in Exchange Management shell and post the results

Get-Mailbox "enterhisemailaddress" | Select *archive*

ArchiveDatabase             : archive
ArchiveGuid                 : 1e7097c0-806b-4001-af22-f18dfaac7b98
ArchiveName                 : {In-Place Archive -Belinda Castano}
JournalArchiveAddress       :
ArchiveQuota                : 68 GB (73,014,444,032 bytes)
ArchiveWarningQuota         : 61.2 GB (65,713,000,448 bytes)
ArchiveDomain               :
ArchiveStatus               : None
ArchiveState                : Local
AutoExpandingArchiveEnabled : False
DisabledArchiveDatabase     : archive
DisabledArchiveGuid         : f2e7660e-9a98-4cc9-84ae-9123f509aa70
ArchiveRelease              :

Did I do the wrong GUID? should it be -- DisabledArchiveGuid         : f2e7660e-9a98-4cc9-84ae-9123f509aa70 

So let's rewind.  YOu had originally disabled his archive, correct?  YOu then enabled it again, correct?  

Run the below again, let's check something

Get-Recipient "enterhisdisplaynamehere" -IncludeSoftDeletedRecipients | Select Identity,ExchangeGuid,ArchiveGuid,primarysmtpaddress,when*

That is correct sir...

Identity           : doamin/Company/HQ/Users/IS/Belinda Castano
ExchangeGuid       : a71acf1e-0dbe-45fa-88da-efcc8600049e
ArchiveGuid        : 1e7097c0-806b-4001-af22-f18dfaac7b98
PrimarySmtpAddress : bcastano@domain
WhenMailboxCreated : 7/27/2016 8:03:11 PM
WhenSoftDeleted    :
WhenChanged        : 5/28/2020 11:07:40 AM
WhenCreated        : 7/27/2016 3:35:06 PM
WhenChangedUTC     : 5/28/2020 4:07:40 PM
WhenCreatedUTC     : 7/27/2016 8:35:06 PM

If that disabled archive is really his original archive he should now have an archive in his outlook that is empty.
Verify with him

I skyped my boss to check...Exchange still has same archive usage so I dont think it took affect.

I think it's still empty...Still waiting for confirmation. 

She does not have archive mail. I am sorry. 

'previous archive mail' Its fresh new archive mail account. 

Exactly...the disabled one is the original one...no problem we will restore from the original archive to this one...
Open Exchange Management shell and run the following command

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -Name "bcastano" -SourceMailbox "f2e7660e-9a98-4cc9-84ae-9123f509aa70" -TargetMailbox "1e7097c0-806b-4001-af22-f18dfaac7b98"  -AllowLegacyDNMismatch -AcceptLargeDataLoss -BadItemLimit Unlimited -LargeItemLimit Unlimited -ConflictResolutionOption KeepSourceItem -verbose

I got this....

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>New-MailboxRestoreRequest -Name "bcastano" -SourceMailbox "f2e7660e-9a98-4cc9-84ae-9123f509aa70
" -TargetMailbox "1e7097c0-806b-4001-af22-f18dfaac7b98"  -AllowLegacyDNMismatch -AcceptLargeDataLoss -BadItemLimit Unlim
ited -LargeItemLimit Unlimited -ConflictResolutionOption KeepSourceItem -verbose
WARNING: When an item can't be read from the source database or it can't be written to the destination database, it
will be considered corrupted. By specifying a non-zero BadItemLimit, you are requesting Exchange not copy such items to
 the destination mailbox. At move completion, these corrupted items will not be available at the destination mailbox.
WARNING: When an item can't be read from the source database or it can't be written to the destination database, it
will be considered corrupted. By specifying a non-zero LargeItemLimit, you are requesting Exchange not copy such items
to the destination mailbox. At move completion, these corrupted items will not be available at the destination mailbox.
The operation couldn't be performed because 'f2e7660e-9a98-4cc9-84ae-9123f509aa70' couldn't be found.
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [New-MailboxRestoreRequest], ManagementObjectNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=HDQ-EXC1,RequestId=c3c357e2-586d-4d84-9061-e3e391eb653e,TimeStamp=5/28/2020 6:59
   :58 PM] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-ManagementObjectNotFoundException] C3B4D628,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Migratio
  n.MailboxReplication.MailboxRestoreRequest.NewMailboxRestoreRequest
    + PSComputerName        : mysystem

Ok open Exchange admin Center and verify if you see the archive mailbox in there.....DO NOT CONNECT IT YET


    Open Mailboxes from Recipients option in EAC.
    Click on More option followed by Connect a Mailbox. After that, a list of disconnected mailboxes i.e soft-deleted, disabled mailboxes is shown.
    From the list shown choose the disabled mailbox that you want to reconnect. Click on Connect.
    Click on Yes Button for confirming the choice of reconnection.

This is what happened...when you disabled the original archive it was put in a soft deleted state and put in that disabled archive database
Then you clicked enable archive and it created a new Archive.

All you had to do was reconnect the one you disabled.  YOu can now do that once you find it in the EAC.   You have to verify which one it is, then disable the new archive and reconnect the one in the EAC

I have three servers to choose from and the only one that has disconnected mailbox is this one below.

These are my databases and archive is where it would have been stored

After I enabled, I researched online and found an article to just restore disconnected mailbox, however I could not find the disconnected mail box. 

If you see the mailbox you need to reconnect this is what you need to do now-
1. Disable the current archive that is connected to her mailbox as it is the wrong one.  It will have a new time stamp when you disable it.  
2. Once disabled connect the one you have found in the EAC that was disabled earlier by you

Are you saying you still don't see the disabled archived mailbox?  Refresh the disconnected mailbox page if you don't see

I just noticed that when I select disable I get this message, which I originally got. Weird that it didn't just restore since it is before the 30 day limit.

Sorry FOX, no I havnt disabled it.

Exactly, you have 30 days before it's purged out.  All you had to do was reconnect the original archive.

Ok, I disabled it right now.I do not see her archive mail box to connect.

the archive mailbox just doesn't disappear.  Run the below 2 commands in Exchange management Shell and post the results

$dbs = Get-MailboxDatabase

$dbs | foreach {Get-MailboxStatistics -Database $_.DistinguishedName} | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq "SoftDeleted"} | Format-List DisplayName,MailboxGuid,LegacyDN,Database,*Guid*,When*

I ran and I get a prompt -

This is my Archive DB

Let's pipe it out to a .csv file  (create a temp folder) on your c:drive

$dbs = Get-MailboxDatabase

$dbs | foreach {Get-MailboxStatistics -Database $_.DistinguishedName} | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq "SoftDeleted"} | Format-List DisplayName,MailboxGuid,LegacyDN,Database,*Guid*,When*  | Export-csv c:\temp\softdeleted.csv -notypeinformation

I saved .csv and I get nothing just a plain notepad document with no data. Man I am scared.

Different syntax below  remember to create a folder named temp on your c:drive


$dbs = Get-MailboxDatabase

$dbs | foreach {Get-MailboxStatistics -Database $_.DistinguishedName} | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq "SoftDeleted"} | Select  DisplayName,MailboxGuid,LegacyDN,Database,*Guid*,When*  | Export-csv c:\temp\softdeleted.csv -notypeinformation

Same results.

Very Odd.  Ok let's just use the gui.  Go back in to disconnected mailboxes and check every database for her  archive mailbox that was originally disabled.  The disabled archives might be going to a different database

I go to EAC - Recipients - Mailboxes - select ... and then I have three servers to choose from and I check all of them. Only one server has disconnected mailboxes, however she isn't listed. 

something is wrong then.  Question are you sure the archive mailboxes are hosted on prem?  Some places have their archives stored in a cloud solution.

It is on-prem let me try one thing

click the field that says "disconnected date" until is shows the most recent date in order

The Archive DB is on a different server for which I am running these scripts. I tried running the last script and the outcome is still generating a blank note bad

Go back to disconnected mailboxes and click the field that says "disconnected date" until is shows the most recent date in order,
you should see the one you disabled earlier and even the one you disabled a little while ago.  If you don't see either one of those disabled archives something is wrong.

I sorted and I only see 15 mail accounts and boss isn't listed.

You checked all the servers, not just that one?  You don't even see the archive you disabled a little while ago?   Check all the servers in the list

in Exchange Management shell run the below 2 commands this time we are doing disabled not soft deleted


$dbs = Get-MailboxDatabase


$dbs | foreach {Get-MailboxStatistics -Database $_.DistinguishedName} | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq "Disabled"} | Format-Table DisplayName,Database,DisconnectDate

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>$dbs | foreach {Get-MailboxStatistics -Database $_.DistinguishedName} | where {$_.DisconnectRea
son -eq "SoftDeleted"} | Format-List DisplayName,MailboxGuid,LegacyDN,Database,*Guid*,When*
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>$dbs = Get-MailboxDatabase
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>$dbs | foreach {Get-MailboxStatistics -Database $_.DistinguishedName} | where {$_.DisconnectRea
son -eq "Disabled"} | Format-Table DisplayName,Database,DisconnectDate

DisplayName                             Database                                DisconnectDate
-----------                             --------                                --------------
Adriana Davalos                         exdb1                                   5/12/2020 7:27:47 PM
Ranulfo Vazquez                         exdb1                                   5/14/2020 12:33:45 PM
Abraham Lozano                          exdb1                                   5/14/2020 12:11:04 PM
Jiezi Jacobo                            exdb1                                   5/14/2020 2:42:34 PM
Luis Garcia                             exdb1                                   5/12/2020 5:42:32 PM
Ricardo Alcantar                        exdb1                                   5/12/2020 4:53:25 PM
Ana Laura Davalos                       exdb2                                   5/12/2020 2:33:44 PM
Miriam Alvarado                         exdb2                                   5/14/2020 4:33:51 PM
Valentin Rubio                          exdb2                                   5/15/2020 3:38:45 AM
Enrique Zuniga                          exdb2                                   5/14/2020 2:41:17 PM
Jose Barragan                           exdb2                                   4/29/2020 12:33:12 AM
Edgar Cruz                              exdb3                                   5/12/2020 1:45:51 PM
Jesus Grimaldo                          exdb3                                   5/12/2020 12:33:41 PM
Maria Villaseñor                        exdb3                                   5/12/2020 3:00:47 PM
Leobardo De Luna                        exdb3                                   5/12/2020 3:09:47 PM

Very very odd.

Run this command

Get-RetentionPolicy

I don't see anything from the database exc1

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-RetentionPolicy

Name                      RetentionPolicyTagLinks                        Guid
----                      -----------------------                        ----
Default MRM Policy        {Recoverable Items 14 days move to archive,... a79f6a1c-f1a0-43fc-b3fa-d5d1d2b0dbc3
ArbitrationMailbox        {Never Delete, AsyncOperationNotification, ... db737f0d-b407-4de0-a49b-92b959b7254a
Archive all over 6 months {6 Month Archive}                              1eee7ebe-a7fa-4649-a39b-edcfadf93dec
Archive-24 months         {Archive after 2 years-Personal}               bf29dc57-79d0-4816-8d1f-e7dcf47147dc

This is weird...I am thinking maybe I should restore from Veeam Backup. I just don't know if I should reenable the feature and then restore to original location? 

There is something wrong with this picture.  
  I don't see anything that you disabled today and you have disabled 2 archives today, niether one of them are showing up

does the veem backup have her archive?

Yes, Lol. Weird.

Should I reenable In Place Archiving and then do restore?

Try this command below


Get-MailboxDatabase "colexc1\archive" | Get-MailboxStatistics  | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq "Disabled"} | Format-Table DisplayName,Database,DisconnectDate

I think her retention policy was set to none on her mail account. Which probably explains why we can't find it. 

Is that her archive on Veem?

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxDatabase "colexc1\archive" | Get-MailboxStatistics  | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq
 "Disabled"} | Format-Table DisplayName,Database,DisconnectDate
Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'Identity'. Cannot convert value "colexc1\archive" to type
"Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.DatabaseIdParameter". Error: "'colexc1\archive' is not a valid value for the
identity.
Parameter name: Identity"
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [Get-MailboxDatabase], ParameterBindin...mationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,Get-MailboxDatabase
    + PSComputerName        : hdq-exc1.corp.oesglobal.com

Yes

Good thing you have that back up.  Look up restoring a disabled mailbox archive from veem backup.

Restoring from Veem backup
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/explorers/vex_restoring_single.html?ver=100

I think I found something.Should reenable and then restore. 

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/explorers/vex_single_target_mailbox.html?ver=100 

Yes I was about to say that.  Enable the archive and then restore to the archive folder

You are on the right track now.

Hey, FOX I cannot thank you enough for staying with me. I have never received this type of support even when I have paid for it. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! Fingers crossed! I hope this goes well. You deserve a medal!!!!

It will go well.  Looks like you have a good backup in place!!!

So Backup restore failed due to GUID error. When I removed anther user or maybe once DBs synced at 6PM, I was able to see 






I attempted to reconnect and this is what I got.

Ok is that the original one from this morning or the last one you disabled....check the timestamp on it

Disconnect @ 6:01:56 PM. Just odd. Why would it have that time and all of sudden come up as a disconnected mailbox?

I'm glad your back...probably because of the database sync

Ok let's run this again...

Get-Recipient "enterhisdisplaynamehere" -IncludeSoftDeletedRecipients | Select Identity,ExchangeGuid,ArchiveGuid,primarysmtpaddress,when*

ok here you go...Thank you!

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-Recipient "Belinda Castano" -IncludeSoftDeletedRecipients | Select Identity,ExchangeGuid,Ar
chiveGuid,primarysmtpaddress,when*


Identity           : domain/OES/HQ/Users/IS/Belinda Castano
ExchangeGuid       : a71acf1e-0dbe-45fa-88da-efcc8600049e
ArchiveGuid        : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
PrimarySmtpAddress : bcastano@domain
WhenMailboxCreated : 7/27/2016 8:03:11 PM
WhenSoftDeleted    :
WhenChanged        : 5/28/2020 6:09:12 PM
WhenCreated        : 7/27/2016 3:35:06 PM
WhenChangedUTC     : 5/28/2020 11:09:12 PM
WhenCreatedUTC     : 7/27/2016 8:35:06 PM

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-Mailbox "bcastano@domain" | Select *archive*


ArchiveDatabase             :
ArchiveGuid                 : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
ArchiveName                 : {}
JournalArchiveAddress       :
ArchiveQuota                : 68 GB (73,014,444,032 bytes)
ArchiveWarningQuota         : 61.2 GB (65,713,000,448 bytes)
ArchiveDomain               :
ArchiveStatus               : None
ArchiveState                : None
AutoExpandingArchiveEnabled : False
DisabledArchiveDatabase     : archive
DisabledArchiveGuid         : 7d01c03b-8caa-4c3f-b910-a4ad30617fc8
ArchiveRelease              :

Ok good....
so it is now showing no archive....
Try to connect that archive again now when it errored out.

Question,
Do you believe the one you are trying to connect is her original archive that you disabled this morning?

Well not 100% but at this point what do we have to lose by reconnecting it. I know she will want to know how this one came up but not original if it doesn't work.

Is there any way to see the size of the archive mailbox while disconnected? It is very big file i am sure. 

In the gui where you tried to connect copy the mailboxguid and put it in below...also the database

Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "Mailbox Database" -StoreMailboxIdentity "putmailboxguidIdhere"

the database says archive and the mailbox guid is the identity number

Bingo

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "archive" -StoreMailboxIdentity "f2e7660e-9a98-4cc9-84ae-9123f5
09aa70"

DisplayName               ItemCount    StorageLimitStatus                                                 LastLogonTime
-----------               ---------    ------------------                                                 -------------
In-Place Archive - Bel... 418775                                                                   5/27/2020 8:54:04 AM

Ok that looks like it...let's try the below   (change the email address to hers)

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceStoreMailbox "In-Place Archive - Belinda Castano" -SourceDatabase "archive" -TargetMailbox pilarp@contoso.com -TargetIsArchive

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceStoreMailbox "In-Place Archive - Belinda Castano" -SourceDatab
ase "archive" -TargetMailbox bcastano@oesglobal.com -TargetIsArchive
WARNING: An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: Mailbox 'Belinda Castano' has no
archive. Mailbox 'Belinda Castano' has no archive.
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [New-MailboxRestoreRequest], MailboxHasNoArchiveException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.MailboxHasNoArchiveException,Microsoft.Exchange.Mana
   gement.Migration.MailboxReplication.MailboxRestoreRequest.NewMailboxRestoreRequest
    + PSComputerName        : hdq-exc1.corp.oesglobal.com

Ok good...now go enable her archive mailbox

Hit Enable? Will this reconnect her old mail account? I am confuse. I thought that shot an error message on last cmd. Sorry.

1. Enable the archive, it will be a blank archive...we will then restore the info from her original archive

Run this after you enable the archive....once the ArchiveGuid is populated with a number we can restore

Get-Mailbox bcastano@oesglobal.com | Select *archive*

we are almost there buddy

Ok, sorry...I enabled.

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-Mailbox bcastano@oesglobal.com | Select *archive*


ArchiveDatabase             : archive
ArchiveGuid                 : 263cb630-7235-4217-9821-830bfb500711
ArchiveName                 : {In-Place Archive -Belinda Castano}
JournalArchiveAddress       :
ArchiveQuota                : 68 GB (73,014,444,032 bytes)
ArchiveWarningQuota         : 61.2 GB (65,713,000,448 bytes)
ArchiveDomain               :
ArchiveStatus               : None
ArchiveState                : Local
AutoExpandingArchiveEnabled : False
DisabledArchiveDatabase     : archive
DisabledArchiveGuid         : 7d01c03b-8caa-4c3f-b910-a4ad30617fc8
ArchiveRelease              :

ok let's try this command again if it doesn't work we will use another one

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceStoreMailbox "In-Place Archive - Belinda Castano" -SourceDatabase "archive" -TargetMailbox bcastano@oesglobal.com -TargetIsArchive

ok

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceStoreMailbox "In-Place Archive - Belinda Castano" -SourceDatab
ase "archive" -TargetMailbox bcastano@oesglobal.com -TargetIsArchive

Name                                           TargetMailbox                                  Status
----                                           -------------                                  ------
MailboxRestore                                 corp.oesglobal.com/OES/HQ/Users/IS/Belinda ... Queued

I must of entered something wrong?

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxRestore | Select Name,TargetMailbox,*guid*
Get-MailboxRestore : The term 'Get-MailboxRestore' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file,
or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and
try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-MailboxRestore | Select Name,TargetMailbox,*guid*
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Get-MailboxRestore:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

my bad omg 

sorry bad syntax...I'm getting drowsy

Get-MailboxRestoreRequest | Select Name,TargetMailbox,*guid*

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxRestoreRequest | Select Name,TargetMailbox,*guid*

Name                                    TargetMailbox                           RequestGuid
----                                    -------------                           -----------
MailboxRestore                          corp.oesglobal.com/OES/HQ/Users/IS/B... aa0ff319-1c8b-4141-8d7d-d95ba1567dfd

Now

Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics "aa0ff319-1c8b-4141-8d7d-d95ba1567dfd"

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics "aa0ff319-1c8b-4141-8d7d-d95ba1567dfd"

Name                                   StatusDetail              TargetAlias                           PercentComplete
----                                   ------------              -----------                           ---------------
MailboxRestore                         CopyingMessages           bcastano                              11

I see data growing...Shes not online right now, but I have good feeling. I cant believe this bro.

You are the man right about now.  If it was the blank archive we were restoring it would be done by now.  Every now and then just run this below to check the progress.  

Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics "aa0ff319-1c8b-4141-8d7d-d95ba1567dfd"

FOX honestly who are you bro! You saved me! What is your overall assumption on what happened here? 

She's going to want a incident report from me. 

Do you guys have webmail ?

Give yourself rights to her mailbox with the below and then open up her mailbox in webmail

Add-MailboxPermission bcastano@oesglobal.com -User "youremailaddress" -AccessRights FullAccess -Automapping $False



Then open up her mailbox in webmail
open up your webmail
 to the top right click your initials(or picture)
Open another mailbox
input her email address
scroll down to see if the archive is populating

Yes, I texted her just now...how can I send you $donation (a little something).

Did you open up her mailbox in your webmail?  Let's not party yet...I want to make sure it's the right one populating

ok

I went to OWA and attempted to access but access denied

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Add-MailboxPermission mail -User "mail" -AccessRights F
ullAccess -Automapping $False

Identity             User                 AccessRights                                                IsInherited Deny
--------             ----                 ------------                                                ----------- ----
corp.oesglobal.co... CORP\jaime.campos    {FullAccess}                                                False       False

It take a few minutes before the permissions kick in,,,try again in 10 minutes...in the meantime let's check the progress

Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics "aa0ff319-1c8b-4141-8d7d-d95ba1567dfd"

14 percent -- Its probably over 50 GB.

Fair enough check her mailbox again in about 10 minutes - once you see it populating you can remove your permissions  in the gui or below with this

Remove-MailboxPermission "heremailaddress" -User "Youremailaddress" -AccessRights FullAccess -Confirm:$False

I also texted her...I know she will ask me why all of sudden it came up in disconnected mailboxes. She will also want to know how I got it to work.She just responded right now and checking

This will be your incident report to her:

Your archive mailbox was inadvertently disabled at "put in the date and time".

I was not able to connect your disabled archive box back during the day in the conventional method as it wasn't showing up in disconnected mailboxes until the mailbox databases synced at 6 pm.

Once the databases synced up I was able to see the disconnected mailbox and when attempting to connect it back it threw an error stating the archive mailbox was already in use.

I then enabled a new archive and restored your original archive mailbox data to the new enabled archive.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you

Was it you or someone else that disabled the original archive?

Hey Fox, I just started this job a month half ago...we had some network switches down a week ago and I was able to restore quickly and my boss was very happy. I have been doing good but I dropped the ball this AM. I had multiple screens opened and I accidently disabled her account when I met to do my own accoutn. If it wasn't for you, I would be lost. I cannot thank you enough. Please contact me if you can by email.

Ish happens bro.  Each one teach one.  You are a hero right about now.   Let's be glad it wasn't her primary mailbox.  She cannot be that mad.  You have rectified the issue within 24 hours without having to contact Microsoft and/or spending any real loot.  She will be glad trust me.

check her mailbox now via webmail

It is updating!!!!! Thanks you!!!!

Ok don't forget to remove your permissions whenever you are ready...you don't want her saying you have full view of her mailbox

Remove-MailboxPermission "heremailaddress" -User "Youremailaddress" -AccessRights FullAccess -Confirm:$False

Go get some rest now!!!!!!