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Iron Contributor

Jul 02, 2017

Recovering from a retention policy change. Help

A retention policy change created some undesired results in our organization. Long story short, anything older than 30 days was deleted across the entire mailbox across most of the organization. I ...

Iron Contributor

Jul 03, 2017

Thanks for this bit. I made significant progress with the EWS script. I am able to connect, find the items, and for the most part, recover them.

The one sticking point is - ideally, I would like to recover them to the folder that they were deleted from - including user created folders within the mailbox. I see the parentfolderid on the message - but it is some long crazy GUID or other unique identifier. I haven't yet been able to tie that to a folder in the mailbox -- am I headed in the right direction? Should that parentfolderid refer to the folder in which the message was deleted from?

Thanks again!

steve

VasilMichev

MVP

Jul 04, 2017

Well, they recently introduced a feature to recover deleted messages to their original folder (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2017/06/13/announcing-original-folder-item-recovery/), however this does not work with EWS, afaik. You will have to manually check for the parent folder property and adjust the script to perform the move/restore operation accordingly.