A better way to recover a mailbox

@jpalarchio when you have an inactive mailbox it will essentially be in a soft deleted state meaning the steps similar to what is documented in this post will work for recovering the data

What if the source mailbox had LitigationHold or InPlace Hold enabled ?

What about RMS protected messages ?

Thanks for the info, so what is the solution if the mailbox is hard-deleted AND the method involving "New-Mailbox –RemovedMailbox" is not available?

Is this command available to all tenants in Office 365? I am global admin with Organization Management role however I could not run the command New-MailboxRestoreRequest : The term 'New-MailboxRestoreRequest' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,

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Hi, nice write. Glad you are recommending this as I work exactly that way already :-) But maybe allow me to suggest a vital enhancement: In order to restore the deleted mailbox so that users won´t recognize that there is a new mailbox acting as the old

one: Do not only takeover the SMTP address(es), also take over the "old" LegacyExchangeDN as X400 Alias address to the new mailbox (leave that LegacyDN as is). This will suppress NDR messages when other users who wrote to that deleted mailbox before and/or

have that mailbox in their contacts folder.

To repair inaccessible exchange server mailbox you can use Eseutil and Isinteg, It provide soft and hard database recovery, If you want to use third party software then try edb repair software.

http://www.edbtoliveexchange.edbpst.net

EDB recovery software is an advance and effective third party software, it can easily restore mailbox folders- Inbox, Outbox, Sent items, Journals, Notes, Task, Draft etc. The software can fix edb files error and database corruption issue.

http://www.exchangeserver.recoveryfiles.org/

Exchange edb repair software is capable to instantly restore mailbox from corrupt exchange server database public folder. The software easily fix exchange server corruption issue and convert corrupt edb to pst format.

http://www.edb2pst.net/

The "new" Approach provides a much better/easier way to recover mailboxes. Thanks.

@Jeff - sorry for the delay I had to test it to verify, You can only perform the restore using the MailboxRstoreRequest cmdlet to one mailbox, subsequent restore request of the same soft deleted mailbox to other active mailboxes fail