Object Recovery Wizard for Microsoft Exchange: Options

On the Options page, specify the location for recovered objects and define overwriting options and naming conventions.

Info
To download items to a browser or forward them via email, enable the system.exchange.enable.direct.recovery setting in the Expert tab. Note that contacts and calendar items will not be recoverable with this enabled setting.

• Recovering to the Original Location

• Recovering to a Custom Location

• Exporting to a Custom Location

• Overwriting Behavior

Recovering to the Original Location

In the Recovery type drop-down list, select Recover to original location to recover objects to their original location on the recovery VM.

Note
Recovering to the original location is not supported when a whole mailbox is selected for recovery.

Recovering to a Custom Location

In the Recovery type drop-down list, select Recover to custom location to recover objects to a custom location on the recovery VM. Specify the recovery location in the Local path field or browse to find it.

Notes

• Recovering to a custom location may be blocked in case the user has insufficient permissions.

• Recovering to a custom location is not supported when a whole mailbox is selected for recovery.

 

Exporting to a Custom Location

In the Recovery type drop-down list, you can choose Export to export Microsoft Exchange. You can choose the following locations for the export:

• Local folder: After selecting this option, enter the local path to the folder where the recovered objects should be stored.

• CIFS share: After selecting this option, provide the path to the file share and enter the necessary credentials.

Notes

• This option is not supported for databases.

• When this option is selected, some object types are not exported to .pst files:

  • Contacts are exported to .vcf files.

  • Calendar objects are exported to .vcs files.

  • Emails are exported to .eml files.
    

Overwriting Behavior

Specify the naming convention for the recovered folders by choosing one of the following options from the Overwrite behavior drop-down list:

• Rename recovered item if such an item exists

• Skip recovered item if such an item exists

• Overwrite the original item if such an item exists

  
  

Click Recover to proceed with the recovery process. The Finish page is displayed. You cannot return to the previous pages of the wizard at this point, however, you can check the progress of the job execution by clicking the Activities link.