Recovering deleted mailbox using PowerShell
September 29, 2017 | by iaur | posted as Administration, Exchange Online
Scenario
- You have a former member(usera) and would like to restore the mailbox to a different active user (admin)
- Usera has not been unlicensed for more than 30 days, otherwise its mailbox has been permanently deleted
usera = deleted mailbox alias
admin = active user alias
Steps
- Connect to EXO using PowerShell
- Run the following cmldets one at a time
| Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox usera | fl |
| Get-Mailbox admin | Format-List ExchangeGUID |
| Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox usera | Format-List ExchangeGUID |
| New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceMailbox “usera ExchangeGUID” -TargetMailbox “admin ExchangeGUID” -AllowLegacyDNMismatch -Verbose |
– ” is not included
– this imply data loss scenario as it will replace the Exchange GUID of the target user