Sometimes there is a situation occurs where you accidently deleted an exchange user account from the Active directory. As a result, you lost the complete data which is related to your deleted account in Exchange Server. And it may affects the organization’s IT infrastructure. Active directory has a very important role in IT organizations. Its hierarchical database stores all the information about the resources such as Servers, clients, users and user groups. And also provides the facilities for you to create a new object and modify or delete the existing objects.
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How to Restore?
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Restore through Active directory Recycle bin
To restore the deleted mailbox, first you have to enable Exchange Recycle Bin when the Cache Exchange is not running.
To enable Recycle bin you have to execute either of the following options- Active Directory module cmdlet
Right click on the Administrative Tools and run Windows powershell Active Directory module in Administrative mode.
In the same command prompt execute the command Enable-ADOptionalFeature -Identity <ADOptionalFeature> -Scope <ADOptionalFeatureScope> -Target
<ADEntity> and press enter. - Ldp.exe
- In command prompt run “Ldp.exe”
- Click connection and then connect to the server hosting forest root domain of the current Active Directory DS environment.
- In Base DN under the option View select Configuration Directory Partition
- In console tree, double-click on configuration directory partition distinguished name CN=Partitions container
- Right click on distinguished name then modify.
- In Edit entry Attribute, type “enableOptionalFeature” and under the values mention “CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,DC=domainname,DC=com:766ddcd8-acd0-445e-f3b9-a7f9b644f2a”
- Next, swap com and domainname with AD DS environment suitable forest root domain name.
- Click Add under Operation then Run.
- Search for msDS-EnabledFeature attribute and If the value is set as CN=Recycle Bin Featue, CN=Optional Features , CN=Directory Service , CN=Windows NT , Cn= Services, CN=Configuration, DC= domainname,DC=com then you can ensure that Recycle Bin is enabled.
Once the Active Directory Recycle bin is enabled run the command Connect-Mailbox -Identity “<identity>” -Database <database> -User “username” with
appropriate parameters to restore the mailbox. - Active Directory module cmdlet
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Restore the mailbox in retention period
When you delete a mailbox intentionally or unintentionally in exchange, it will be disconnected for a default retention period of 30 days. During this period the
mailbox which you have deleted will be flagged for deletion. But you can restore your lost data any point of this period and reconnect it back. Once the retention
period is completed, this mailbox will be disconnected permanently from the database.- Go to Exchange System Manager. Find the deleted (disconnected) mailboxes which are contained in Mailbox store.
- Click the mailbox object which you want to restore and make sure that the object is not marked as disconnected. If it is flagged as disconnected then click
Cleanup Agent. - Right-click the selected mailbox, click Reconnect, then select the appropriate user to restore. Click OK.
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Restore using Adrestore utility
- Create a user object without mailbox in Active Directory.
- Download Adrestore free utility which enables you to recover the deleted mailbox. This utility enumerates the deleted objects. And provides option to restore
each of them. - In command prompt, type “adrestore.exe”
- If this command executed successfully, it will display all the deleted objects from the Active directory.
- Execute the command “adrestore/r” and type “yes” to restore the deleted objects.
Quick Solution
EdbMails for OST to PST Converter is a free tool to convert orphaned OST Files to PST. Also, you can perform OST file migration to Live Exchange or to Office 365.
Though there are so many options available to restore the mailboxes, before using you need to consider the factors such as security, reliability and speed. One of the best solution to recover your deleted mailbox is EdbMails OST to Exchange Server Migration Tool. Because a copy of exchange mailbox is stored locally in the Outlook storage file. If you have lost your exchange mailbox you can effectively recover it back using this tool.