We have a user that no longer works with us and she might of deleted some important email. My question to you all is, is there a way to recover deleted messages from the inbox/sent mail or is there a way to view sent other than from that users mailbox. Sorry to make this a two part question if I need to break it up into two threads let me know. I would also like to know if there is any email capturing software out there that will capture/hold sent/incoming mail and archive it for a certain time frame or indef?

You've omitted a lot of important information. Does the mailbox still exist? if so is the deletion within the default 14 day message retention periodif the mailbox is gone, is it within the 30 day default mailbox retention period?Is there cached mode data in another outlook profile?is there a backup of Exchange done? (obvious question)

Hello Mike Crowley,Good questions here. Yes the mailbox still exists and I've already done the 14 day dumpster recovery but there might of been things up to 30 days that we need to recover.I'm not sure about the cached mode. If you are talking about within Outlook going to File>Cached Exchange Mode then yes I'm pretty sure that is enabled.We have an SBS server and there is no direct exchange backup but a whole server backup from the Server backup within SBS Console. Is there a way to recover data just pretaining to Exchange? And is there a way to just view it and not write over what is already in place? For example we dont want to write over what is in her inbox now to recover stuff from a month ago.

SBS 2003 or 2008?

I haven't done it in 2008, but I believe you follow these steps:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794331(WS.10).aspxand choose to recover to an alternate location (an RSG). AFTER you've created a RSG. There should be wizard in the Exchange tools to aid in the creation of the recovery storage group.

Hey Mike,Thanks I'll have to give this a try and let you know. Id also like to add that for my 2nd part or 2nd question in the thread I found a solution from a 3rd party that we were already using just not implamenting their features. Check out www.mxlogic.com now owned my McAfee. They do email filtering, web filtering and Email archiving for up to 7 years. We just purchased the complete package with 3 years of email archiving for $112.40 a month for 20 users what a great deal!