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In Macrium Reflect Server Plus you can use Mailbox Restore to restore individual emails from a backup of Microsoft Exchange. This is useful if your backup contains some vital emails or attachments, but you don't want to have to restore the whole MS Exchange server in order to access them .

Mailbox Restore can restore emails, appointments, contacts, journal entries, notes and tasks . Whenever this knowledgebase article describes restoring "emails", any of these can be restored in the same way.

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Before you begin:

For Mailbox Restore to function, Microsoft Exchange MAPI and CDO must be installed on the server. These are present by default on Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. For Exchange 2007 or later, they can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42040

In order to To restore an email using Mailbox Restore, the edition of Microsoft Exchange running on the target server must be the same as the original server. An email backed up on a server running Exchange Server 2007, for example, can be restored onto other servers running Exchange 2007, but not to a server running Exchange 2010.

Note: A mailbox needs to exist on the target server, with the same name as the original mailbox.

The user running Macrium Reflect must have full access permissions for the mailbox being restored to. Further information about setting up these permissions can be found in the following knowledgebase article:
Setting up permissions for Mailbox Restore

Using Mailbox Restore

Instructions for how to back up your Exchange server can be found in the following knowledgebase article:
Backing up an Exchange Server

1 . Start up Reflect. Go to the Restore tab, click on "Microsoft Exchange Restore", and click "Restore Exchange Mailboxes".

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2 . The first page of the Mailbox Restore wizard will let you choose the
message store / database, and the Exchange backup to restore from. After selecting a backup, click "Next".

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3 . Once the backup has mounted, the wizard will show a tree view of all the mailboxes within the chosen message store or database. You can navigate through the tree view, and select entire folders to restore, or can click on a folder to display and select individual emails.

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This email list can be filtered by sender, recipient, subject, date sent 

1. In Restore, select Microsoft Exchange Restore.

2. Select Restore Exchange Mailboxes.

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   The Exchange Mailbox Restore Wizard appears.

3. Select the required message store / database to backup from and click Next.

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4. Select required folder, or click appropriate folder to select required individual email to restore.

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5. Click the filter button to filer the email list by Sender, Recipient, Subject, Between dates, or whether there are attachments.

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4 . Once the emails you wish to restore have been selected, click the Finish button. The selected emails will be restored to their original mailbox. Any subfolders will be created as necessary.

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2. By default Appointment, Contact, and Note are selected, deselect any that are not required.

3. When you have made all the required selections / deselections, click OK.

4. Click Restore.