Restore mailbox items Older than x date

[tacochris]

We recently had a mailbox retention policy mistakenly applied to a user mailbox that deleted items older than 3 years. The retention policy has been removed, and we need to restore the items that were removed by policy.

For example: I do not want to restore the entire mailbox. We just want to restore all items older than March 30, 2019 and leave all other mail as-is in the mailbox.
Looking for guidance on how to do this successfully with or without powershell.

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Is the following doing what you like to do?
1) select the mailbox
2) advanced find
3) category: date/time - Date received - less than 30. March 2019
4) restore



Best regards,
Hannes

[tacochris]

Thanks for the suggestion, @HannesK. But, it appears performing the advanced search only works on the current selected folder, not the subfolders of the mailbox.

[HannesK]

hmm, I got lost... my understanding was that you want

to restore all items older than March 30, 2019 and leave all other mail as-is in the mailbox.

what kind of subfolder is it about? Do you maybe have a screenshot where advanced find is not working?

[tacochris]

Haha! My mistake! I just realized that i didnt scroll to the right to see the folder field.