In Enterprise Vault, they can do that with a (non-magical) button in Outlook that looks like this: There are two problems with this: 1) If there are a lot of messages in the folder/subfolders of a case, it can be very tedious to restore all the items. 2) Restoring the items leaves a copy in Enterprise Vault. Enterprise Vault 9.0 Currently, my test user has a policy to Archive everything older than 1 month. I can see the icons within Outlook indicating an item has been archived. If you accidentally delete an email or a bunch of email from a vault archive, those emails are gone permanently correct? There any ways to restore them? There anyways to find out if those emails were infact deleted? I have an archive that appears that the last 3 years worth of email is gone. Their inbox shows the latest email is late 2012. About Enterprise Vault and your Outlook mailbox Enterprise Vault automatically moves emails and their attachments from the folders in your Outlook mailbox to an online storage area that is called a vault. This process is called archiving. Enterprise Vault runs automatically and usually performs archiving at off-peak times. After Enterprise.
Once in a while, Exchange users encounter situations that demand manual recovery of mailbox utilizing Outlook. Fortunately, manual mailbox recovery can be performed using OST files, as they carry replicas of Exchange folders offline, therefore user can obtain required Exchange data from them easily.
In this guide we will show you how to easily recover a mailbox using OST file in two different scenarios.
Try automated tool Kernel for OST Recovery to recover deleted mailbox from OST file and save them in PST, DBX, MBOX, MSG, HTML, XHTML, PDF format.
Scenario 1: When the original Microsoft Exchange profile was not modified
In this case, you can start the Microsoft Exchange client offline with the old OST file. This way you can recover the data by moving the messages from the OST to a PST file.
Here are the steps to recover:
- Open Exchange Email application (Outlook) in offline mode
- Click onFile menu > Open & Export > Import/Export
- Import & Export wizard will appear, click on Export to a file > Outlook data file (.pst)
- Choose the OST folders which contain the required Exchange information and click Next button
- Browse the location where you want to save the recovered data, and then click the finish button.
The messages are exported to the newly created PST. After this, you can copy and import the messages from the PST back to the server-based mailbox.
Scenario 2: If the original Microsoft Exchange profile was deleted, modified or lost
In this case, any accidental deletion of Exchange Server mailbox or any modification to the Exchange profile will orphan the Outlook OST file. This orphaned OST file is useless as it cannot be synced to extract information.
The only possible way is to recreate synchronization between Microsoft Exchange Server and outlook OST through the unique MAPI address.
- Connect Outlook with the original MAPI
- Connect the MAPI address to original Microsoft Exchange Server.
If you are dealing with old OST files or Exchange corruption, having the original MAPI address is highly unlikely. Similarly, if the OST file itself is in a bad or corrupt state, then it’s almost useless.
Scenario 3: If the Exchange mailbox gets deleted accidentally
If the case is such that you have accidentally deleted your Exchange mailbox and you have not taken any recent backup? The perfect solution recommended in such a scenario is a third-party solution – Kernel OST Recovery, to recover and restore deleted Exchange mailbox from OST file.
Follow the quick steps one by one mentioned below to recover the mailbox:
Microsoft frontpage 2003 product key. STEP 1: Launch Kernel for OST Recovery Software and click Browse to select OST file for recovery.
STEP 2: You can select a single as well as multiple corrupted or damaged OST files from your local machine for recovery.
STEP 3: A complete preview of OST file items is displayed by the OST recovery software.
STEP 4: Save individual email items by right-clicking on the specific email as shown below in the desired format.
STEP 5: Select the PST file as Output to save the complete recovered data. You can also choose any desired output type as per your requirement from the saving options.
STEP 6: Finally, select the desired location to save the recovered OST mailbox data to PST file on your local machine.
Conclusion
Recovering a mailbox from an OST file can be an easy process to do natively if the situation is a straight forward one. However, if you’re looking at a more complex environment or unable to access OST in MS Outlook or Exchange server then it may make more sense to deploy Kernel for OST Recovery. The solution makes it easy to restore OST files to either a live Exchange server, a new PST file or to a pre-existing PST file as needed.
Related Topic
Try Free Version of
![Enterprise Enterprise](/uploads/1/1/9/7/119793314/461218389.jpg)
Kernel for OST to PST
Recover and convert OST files to PST, EML, MBOX and Office 365
Download Free“Holy crap!”, stated a customer as I was demonstrating one of our products. I wasn’t sure if he thought a feature I was showing him was a horrible idea or a great one!
Mass Restore Solution
Customers from different industries, can have completely different requirements of a product. In this case, I was showing him an Outlook Add-in that can be used in a unique way to do a mass restore of Enterprise Vault archived items back to folders in an Exchange mailbox.
Quite a few law firms around the world use Enterprise Vault. Many of them also use a document management system to manage retention, such as NetDocuments ndMail or iManage Work. They typically have a way within Outlook, to push information from their mailbox into the document repository. One of the problems if they have mailbox management with Enterprise Vault, is that a lot of the messages they want to put into the document management system could be in the form of Enterprise Vault ‘stubs’, aka ‘short-cuts’. These stubs are not the full message and they never include the attachments. To resolve this issue, they will typically instruct their users to ‘restore’ the items from Enterprise Vault before putting them in the document management system. In Enterprise Vault, they can do that with a (non-magical) button in Outlook that looks like this:
There are two problems with this:
1) If there are a lot of messages in the folder/subfolders of a case, it can be very tedious to restore all the items.
2) Restoring the items leaves a copy in Enterprise Vault. Some law firms don’t want multiple copies of important messages. They want the document management system to be the system of record. If the document becomes expired there, they don’t want another copy to exist elsewhere (in Enterprise Vault, for example).
Problem Solved
So, we came up with an Outlook Add-in which solves these two problems. It looks like this:
Press it, and you get the option to restore all short-cuts in the current folder and its subfolders, as shown in this animated GIF:
Magic Button
We have a customer that has been using this button for over 9 years. They coined it the ‘Magic Button’ because it saves their attorneys so much time. It is crucial for them. If anything goes wrong (issues with updates to Enterprise Vault, etc.) we hear about it fast.
How To Access Outlook Vault
So, when I told this potential new customer that pressing the button would restore all items in the folder and subfolder, potentially thousands of items, he said “holy crap!”. My first thought was that he was concerned it would fill up the user’s mailbox. That was not the case. He was excited because he had been looking all over for a tool that would do this. This made my day and I realized we need to do a better job of getting the word out about this seemingly simple product that makes people’s daily tasks much easier. Hence this blog post!