In the last related blog post we discussed recovering public folders and its contents from dumpster when they are deleted and various recovery steps using the Outlook client and Exchange Management...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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@Siddhesh: Thank you very much for the answer.
But it seems it's quite inconvenient to restore public folder items in Exchange 2013. If I need to audit and view the items in a public folder backup, I have to create a separate test environment, recreate the folder list (a very hard task to do so...), and then restore the whole public folder to a live db?
It there any way we can at least do the same thing in Exchange 2010: restore a public folder database as a live db, and disable the replication of that database, so that the content in that "restored" db won't affect other production dbs. Then we can access the item-level contents in the db with MAPI. This solution avoids the need to recreate the folders first and a separate Exchange environment.