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How to restore a Mailbox By Using Exchange System Manager

If you have deleted a user from Active Directory, but haven't purge it and the deleted mailboxes remain on the server has not yet expired, you may use Exchange System Manager to recover the user's mailbox .

Verify or Configure Mailbox Deletion Settings

To verify or configure mailbox deletion settings, follow these steps:

Start Exchange System Manager
Expand Servers, expand ServerName, and then expand StorageGroupName.
Right-click Mailbox Store, and then click Properties.
Click the Limits tab.
In the Keep deleted mailboxes for (days) box, specify the number of days that deleted items can remain on the server before they are permanently deleted. By default it is 30.

Restore a Mailbox by Using Exchange System Manager

Open the Exchange System Manager
Expand Servers, expand ServerName, and then expand StorageGroupName.
Expand Mailbox Store, right-click Mailboxes, and then click Run Cleanup Agent.

4. Right-click the mailbox that you want to recover, and then click Reconnect.

5. In the list of Microsoft Active Directory directory service accounts that appears, click the user account where you want the mailbox to connect, and then click OK.

6. You should be able to read all deleted the user's emails from the reconnected user emailbox.

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