

Some good news is that a combination of native Exchange 2010 PowerShell commands and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) can achieve mailbox-level recovery with surprising ease. This feature can be a make-or-break decision for Exchange admins when selecting a backup solution. Microsoft does not provide a native and fully automated way to granularly restore a single mailbox from an Exchange database backup. While the main purpose of Exchange backup is to enable server, storage, and datacenter disaster recovery (DR) scenarios, a common and routine request of Exchange admins is to restore an individual mailbox. Most IT pros know there are dozens if not hundreds of Exchange backup tools and solutions, and the cost and complexity factors can run quite high. Everyone will agree that if you are using on-premise or private cloud Exchange servers for your business, the databases must be backed up. The total loss of an email system and all the corporate knowledge it contains is at best a catastrophe for any organization. There are few viable organizations that don’t back up their Exchange databases. John Joyner shows you eight steps to do this using PowerShell commands and Microsoft System Center DPM. Eight steps to restore an individual Exchange 2010 mailbox with System Center Data Protection ManagerĮxchange admins often have to restore an individual mailbox rather than an entire database.
