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JustAnotherITGuy
Sep 03, 2019Brass Contributor
Shared mailbox messages going to recoverable deleted items
Hi! Trying to solve an issue that's plagued me for a couple weeks. We have a shared mailbox hosted in Exchange Online that receives customer orders. We're discovering that many orders are somehow...
rroddy24
Jul 30, 2025Copper Contributor
See this article:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/collaboration-exo/shared-mailboxes
Specifically this statement:
- When users move items from one folder to another in a shared mailbox, a copy of the item is stored in the Recoverable Items folder.
You should find the item in both the folder they moved it to AND the recoverable items.
sysad42
Aug 01, 2025Copper Contributor
I did not know that, but im not seeing that actually happen in testing. That would be a very odd thing to design in.
In any case, I could never prove items were being moved through anything other than users deleting things, so weve moved on.