How to recover deleted Exchange mailboxes?

Are you looking for a solution to recover deleted Exchange mailboxes? This write-up will share the solution to complete this process manually and professionally. Generally, when a mailbox gets deleted intentionally or accidentally, it doesn’t get permanently deleted from the Exchange Server. Users can recover it easily if the retention period has not yet expired. However, if the retention period expires, users need to use third-party software to do it. So, read this write-up and know the ways to get your deleted mailbox.

Ways to restore a deleted mailbox in MS Exchange

We will share two methods to recover deleted Exchange mailboxes in this write-up. First is the manual solution, where we will give some steps to recover the mailbox if the retention period has not expired. Another is the professional software to recover mailboxes after expiring the retention period. So, let us start with the manual solution and learn how to perform the Exchange mailbox recovery process.

Manual solution to recover Exchange Server mailboxes

In this manual method, we are going to provide you with the steps to recover deleted Exchange mailboxes using EAC. Follow the below steps and complete this task.

• Go to the Exchange Admin Center (EAC).
• Then, navigate to the Recipients and go to Mailboxes.
• After that, click on the three dots and choose the Connect a mailbox option.
• Now, you need to select a deleted mailbox from the list of disconnected mailboxes. Then, tap the Connect and continue with the Yes button.
• After that, you will receive a list of user accounts. Now, you have to choose a user account to connect to the deleted mailbox and hit the OK button.

After taking these steps, users can easily perform the Exchange mailbox recovery task. In case your retention period is over, you have to move to a third-party solution to do it.

A simple method to recover a deleted mailbox in Exchange

The Shoviv Exchange Recovery Manager is one of the best tools, which is capable of performing various tasks. This software can easily recover deleted Exchange mailboxes in the blink of an eye. Users only need to add their EDB file, and it smoothly gets back to their deleted mailbox. Moreover, it is easy for all users to work with this software, as it comes with a simple user interface. New users can also utilize this solution for their Exchange mailbox restoring process.

It allows users to repair their corrupt EDB files without affecting the hierarchy of the folder and the integrity of emails. This tool comes with the facility to save the EDB files into other file formats such as PST, EML, MSG, HTML, etc.

• Users can also process the Exchange migration task to the desired target using this professional solution.
• Moreover, it doesn’t harm any items during the processing and retains the originality of the data.
• Users can select particular items from the mailbox as well using its filter option. It provides the date range and message class criteria to include or exclude items.
• This tool is also capable of moving the public folders from the Exchange/Office 365 to the target Exchange/Office 365 account.
• It provides a preview of the entire Exchange database file after adding the file to this professional software.

There are some other features available in this tool, which users can explore by using its free demo version.

Wrapping Up

This write-up has shared the solutions to recover deleted Exchange mailboxes manually and professionally. We hope you understand both the solutions and now choose the appropriate one to begin this task. Moreover, users will not face any issues in recovering their deleted mailboxes by using the Shoviv professional tool. Users can use its free demo version and freely process the first 50 items from each folder to check how this tool works.

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