A friend accidentally deleted all my contacts from my Smartphone and since the phone was logged into my Exchange Server account, the deletion command was executed... This immediatelly propagated to my Outlook and other Smartphone. CONCLUSION: Lost all my contacts and hope that a backup exists in the Exchange Server!!! I have access to the Exchange Server of my company and would really like to know if there is some backup in the server? If so, how can I restore the contacts? thank u Diogo

Did you check the Recover Deleted Items on the Outlook?

Was it a hard delete or soft delete? Whats the exchange version? Please check in the Deleted items folder and see if you can see the contacts. In outlook Select Contact folder then click on Tools in the menu bar and select Recover Deleted Items. See if you recover it from there. Do the same steps by selecting Deleted items folder. 1. Run MFCMapi.exe, close the Welcome window 2. Click on the ?Session? menu and click on ?Logon and Display Store tables?. You?ll see that it uses Outlook to connect to the stores, select your Outlook profile and click on OK 3. Click on the MDB menu and select ?Open Default Message Store? (to restore deleted public folder select ?Open Public Folder Store?), then check ?Use Admin Privileges? 4. Expand the ?Top of Information Store?, navigate the folder that you are trying to restore, you can also view the count of deleted folder 5. Right click the ?Contacts? and select ?Open Deleted Subfolder Table? (the same option available under ?Actions? menu. 6. A new window will open displaying the deleted subfolders. Right click on the folder and select ?Restore Deleted Folder?. A box will open up that allows you to select to also restore the subfolders, tick that option and click on OK. Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Hasnain Shaikh| My blogs: http://messagingserversupport.com