Exchangeitup.net Website Review

microsoft enterprise messaging tips, tricks, and general help. i recently had a huge issue in my exchange environment where a retention policy went haywire and wiped mail backstory: we migrated from notes last year, and the legal department wanted to institute retention policies moving to exchange. i it, and of course no one listens me) but they did it anyway. fast-forward a year later, and the tag from that script got removed because it was named test and exchange never threw a warning saying that it was applied to any mailboxes, which un-tagged all mailboxes, so i desperately needed a way to get those messages back; preferably to their original folders, in bulk, without manually going to each mailbox to recover items from the recoverable items folder (aka the dumpster). exchange on-prem doesn't have this capability (it should, microsoft are you listening?) so i scoured the webs and finally found a solution! an ews script that moves items from the recoverable items folder back to the original folder they were deleted from. utilized until cu6; and it can only be accessed from owa, not from outlook, not from powershell. credit goes to scott at flobee.net, who wrote an amazing script that ports the restore-recoverableitems from o365 to on-prem (again, this should be available in the first place, not everyone wants to, or even can move to o365, microsoft). the problem is: it did not work all the way; running with more than one parameter, caused the script to result in no output. wouldn't do anything...i could only use one of those parameters. so, i edited the script to use aqs (advanced query syntax) and hardcoded a date range so it will run successfully. open the script in notepad and search for aqs and change the date range in the following block; you'll need to do this in both the. get-mailboxrecoverableitems and restore-recoverableitems sections: also, change the page size in both sections to 1000; the default is 50. you will also need the ews api 2.2 installed on the machine where you'll be running the script from. best is to install this on a