{"id":769,"date":"2019-03-29T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2019-03-29T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:41:05","slug":"how-to-recover-deleted-mailbox-items-in-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/how-to-recover-deleted-mailbox-items-in-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recover deleted mailbox items in Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Occasionally, Office 365 users will delete important mailbox items  accidentally. Fortunately, in most cases such items can be recovered for  a short period of time after their deletion. In this article we will  discuss what happens when mailbox items are deleted and the  circumstances required to successfully recover them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What happens when mailbox items are deleted?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Office 365 end users soft-delete (Ctrl+D) an item from their mailbox, it goes to the <strong>Deleted Items<\/strong>  folder from which it can returned to the original location very easily.  This procedure is simple as the end user has direct access to the <strong>Deleted Items<\/strong> folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema1.png 625w, https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema1-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The items stay in the <strong>Deleted Items<\/strong> folder until \nthey are automatically cleared or removed by the end user. In earlier \nOffice 365 versions, soft-deleted items remained in the <strong>Deleted Items<\/strong>\n folder for 30 days. Now they remain there for period of time determined\n by the Office 365 (Exchange Online) administrator. This duration can be\n changed by updating the Messaging Records Management (MRM) policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to update the MRM policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Administrators can create a new MRM policy by editing the default one  from the Exchange admin center. To edit the Default MRM policy, go to <strong>compliance management &gt; retention policies<\/strong>, select the Default MRM Policy, and click the edit icon. Change the policy name, set the retention time and click<strong> Save<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema2.png 625w, https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema2-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Permanent deletion of items<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An item is permanently deleted if any of the following occurs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The end user deletes it from the <strong>Deleted Items<\/strong> folder<\/li><li>The end of the retention period is reached<\/li><li>The end user hard-deletes (Shift + Delete) the item from any folder<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"626\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema3.png 626w, https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema3-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Permanently deleted items go to the <strong>Deletions<\/strong> folder (inside the invisible <strong>Recoverable Items<\/strong>\n folder of the mailbox). Whilst the end user has no direct access to \nthis folder, the items can still be recovered for a short period after \ntheir deletion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to recover permanently deleted items<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To recover permanently deleted items, click <strong>Recover Deleted Items<\/strong> (in the <strong>Folder<\/strong> ribbon) in Outlook. A new window with the list of all the recoverable items appears. Select the required items and click <strong>Restore Selected Items<\/strong>. When recovered, the items go back to their original location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema4.png 625w, https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/recovermissinema4-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By default, the permanently deleted items stay in the <strong>Deletions<\/strong>\n folder for 14 days, and are recoverable for this period. Office 365 \nadministrators can increase this duration to 30 days if they wish to do \nso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For detailed information on changing the retention period for an \nExchange Online mailbox, see the links in the resources section&nbsp;at the \nend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Can the deleted items be recovered from on-premises Exchange?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deleted items from user mailboxes can be recovered using the inbuilt  features of on-premises versions of Exchange. However, the process is  slightly time-consuming and there are much easier ways to go about it.  One such way is to deploying a specialized third-party exchange recovery solution . This solution displays the  deleted items on the preview pane, highlighting them in red, and can be  used to recover deleted items from multiple user mailboxes at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, Office 365 users will delete important mailbox items accidentally. 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