A user deleted a Contact card from his mailbox Contacts folder. The contact had a lot of important information in it. Our IT consultants tell me a complete restore takes 6-8 hours and a lot more disk space than we have. My user tells me he emailed that card as an attachment to other users in the company. Isn't there a way to search all 'users' for that card and find out who has a copy of it? I've read about PowerShell - have it installed on my computer - but the get-mailbox command gives me errors (the term is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, probably because I don't have Exchange Management Shell installed). I can write VBA scripts if that can be used to access via MAPI. Using Exchange Server 2003 (within SBS 2003).

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Hi, I think Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Merge Wizard (ExMerge) will help you. You can export the email contain the attachment to .pst file. For detailed, please refer to the following article: http://www.petri.co.il/delete_messages_from_mailboxes_by_using_exmerge.htm Best regards, Serena 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.

Hi You can use this article. XADM: How to Find Mailboxes That Contain a Specific Message http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=246916

Why not recover the contact from the deleted item retention?