What's the Current PowerShell Command to Recover Purged Items from a Legal Hold?
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CuriousCat99
I've been getting mixed messages about the right PowerShell commands for 2025, especially concerning the recovery of items held under a legal hold. I'm looking to find out the most up-to-date command to restore emails from the "recoverable items - purges" folder, which isn't visible to end users. I have a legal hold on the mailbox in question and would like to retrieve all emails that were purged due to retention policies.
I'm a bit confused about whether this command still works:
"Restore-RecoverableItems -Identity '[email protected]' -ResultSize Unlimited"
And would this specific one for emails only still be valid?
"Restore-RecoverableItems -Identity '[email protected]' -FilterItemType IPM.Note -ResultSize Unlimited"
Thanks for the help!
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As far as I know, you'll want to use eDiscovery to manage any queries related to held messages now that the search-mailbox cmdlet has been deprecated. It's a bit frustrating since that cmdlet was straightforward and effective!
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Recoverysavvy11: I tried using eDiscovery but it seems like the only option is to download the PST, which doesn't really help in restoring it directly to the user's mailbox. I’ve read that there might still be a way in PowerShell to do this, but the Microsoft documentation is pretty all over the place.