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Restore deleted Mailbox with Veeam Explorer for Exchange

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Hello every body,

Just one question:

Is there any procedure for restoring a deleted mailbox Exchange 2010 with "Veeam Explorer for Exchange" ?
If no what is the best practice to do it, i know we can restore items but what about complete mailbox ?

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Re: Restore deleted Mailbox with Veeam Explorer for Exchange

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Daniel, yes Veeam Explorer for Exchange in Veeam B&R v6.5 allows for restoring entire mailboxes from Exchange 2010 backup files (even into their original location, if running Veeam B&R Enterprise Edition).
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Ok but even if the mailbox doesn't exist

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If the target mailbox does not exist, you should create an empty mailbox first and then restore the content from the backup to the newly created mailbox.
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Re: Restore deleted Mailbox with Veeam Explorer for Exchange

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Ok thanks for your information.

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Re: Restore deleted Mailbox with Veeam Explorer for Exchange

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Is this still the proposed way?

Problem is, if you create a new mailbox to recover the backup into, you will get a new ID for this mailbox.
Thus loosing all created permissions for others into the folders of the mailbox and e.g. are recurring appointments no longer valid.

Isn't there a way with VBR/VEXE to recover a mailbox to the full extent?

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Re: Restore deleted Mailbox with Veeam Explorer for Exchange

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Hello,
did you try to recover the user first with the active directory explorer to re-create the mailbox object?

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Re: Restore deleted Mailbox with Veeam Explorer for Exchange

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The user is still alive if just the mailbox is deleted. But if I recreate the mailbox it gets a new ExchangeGUID.
So, you suggest to always better delete the user as well and recover both one after the other?

Would be a problem with ADS recycle bin enabled, I guess.
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the idea is to restore the user (well, Exchange attributes only should also work) while it still exists. You can use the "compare with production" button and then it should show the changed / deleted Exchange attributes.

One can restore each attribute separately instead of the whole user.
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Re: Restore deleted Mailbox with Veeam Explorer for Exchange

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ExchangeGUID unfortunately is one of the attributes that cannot be restored independently bei VEAD.
Recovery of the complete user object indeed also recovers the mailbox (from deleted mailboxes) and re-connects it using the SAME ExchangeGUID.
Then no VEXE is needed at all, because the mailbox was derived from deleted mailboxes already. At least if it did not time out of the set time window.
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