Methods to Recover Deleted Public Folder Data from Exchange 2013
Summary
In Exchange 2013, public folders were designed to take advantage of the present high availability storage and technologies of the mailbox database. When any mailbox item is removed from Exchange 2103, it directly goes to the Dumpster, from where they can be retained easily based on the retention policy set for public folders. Let’s have a look at the below example to understand this better: When a user deletes items from a specific folder in MS Outlook (configured with Exchange 2013 account), the following message will appear on the screen: Now, recovering data after this action is pretty simple: you just need to click on the Recover Deleted Items option in Outlook. Public folders are used widely with Exchange Server as well as Office 365 due to their use in collaboration and data sharing. Also, we have mentioned a third-party software that is beneficial in recovering permanently deleted public folder items from Exchange database files.