Update 09/15/2016: We have removed the content of this blog post because the relevant content has now been migrated to TechNet. Please go here for the latest information on this subject.
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,
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
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@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
I may be wrong on this but I'm pretty sure that having the AD Recycle Bin enabled stopped DirSync from being able to preform the sync - at least that was the impression i got when using OnRamp for my test environment
@jpalarchio - The approach documented in this blog will work for inactive mailboxes as well. Inactive Mailboxes should show up in a similar way that soft deleted mailboxes do.
Great article. Any additional notes you can provide around restore options for "inactive mailboxes" (mailboxes on litigation hold or IPH where the user has since been deleted)?
@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
This is great! One issue that often occurs as part of accidental deletions is that NDRs start to surface because other users have the deleted users legacyExchangeDN address in their Outlook NK2 file, so sending with autocomplete attempts a delivery to
the non-existing recipient. Would be great to see documented guidelines on that as well as part of this updated approach. Thanks!
Is this New-MailboxRestoreRequest going to perform the proper write-backs to the on-premises MailUser object and correctly tag it as a RemoteMailboxUser, or do we still need to run Enable-RemoteMailbox ourselves?
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Kindly help me to get the Back up my Mail Data from Outlook.com because i unable to access my Domain/Admin page where we can ADD/DELETE the mail ID. Thanks in Advance for your kind assistance. Awaiting your reply soon. Thanks, Moosa
Is this commandlet available to all the tenants in Office 365?
New-MailboxRestoreRequest : The term 'New-MailboxRestoreRequest' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function. I am a global admin with Organization Management permission.
Unfortunately this change stepped on a an important process for our Hybrid environment. We use Get-RemovedMailbox and New-Mailbox -RemovedMailbox in order to mimic the on-prem behavior of reattaching a disconnected mailbox to another user. We sometimes
have identity provisioning conflicts and other issues arise where this function is invaluable. Having to merge mailboxes rather than just reattaching them is less desirable in these cases. Does the exchange online team have any plans to allow a soft deleted
mailbox to just be 'attached' to another user rather than merged? Either that or return some similar functionality like Get-RemovedMailbox? How are we to deal with mailboxes that are removed after a Remove-MSOLUser -RemoveFromReycleBin?