{"id":129610,"date":"2009-11-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652419620964346731.post-731367684765935981"},"modified":"2009-11-27T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T08:00:00","slug":"deleted-a-public-folder-in-exchange-2007%e2%80%a6-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/129610","title":{"rendered":"Deleted A Public Folder in Exchange 2007\u2026 Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You ever have a moment when you feel like your world is crashing down all around you, and there may be no possible way of coming back or surviving? Well I felt like that the other night. You see I was decommissioning an Exchange 2007 server, and I messed up on a step where you are supposed to transfer all Public Folder replicas to another Exchange 2007 server. I thought I did it correctly, but I obviously didn\u2019t because when I uninstalled Exchange from that server ALL PUBLIC FOLDERS WERE GONE! WTF!!<\/p>\n

I frantically tried to recover using Backup Exec 12.5, but I kept having different problems with that. The restore would say successful, yet still no public folders. I was obviously not doing that right either, but that is for another article.<\/p>\n

I did however have a backup copy of the Public Folders EDB file, so I started scouring the net looking for a good EDB to PST program. All I could find were really expensive ones like Ontrack PowerControls<\/strong> and Kernel for Exchange Server<\/strong>. Frankly those were last resort options because of the cost.<\/p>\n

I did find a tool from Microsoft called PFDAVADMIN<\/a><\/strong>. This tool saved my bacon. It works for Exchange 2000, 2003, and 2007. IT DOES NOT RUN ON WINDOWS 7 WORTH A DAMN!<\/span><\/strong> It also requires .NET Framework 1.1<\/a> so DO NOT RUN IT FROM EXCHANGE!<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I did was create a VM in Virtual box running Windows XP Pro. I installed .NET Framework 1.1, then ran PFDAVADMIN using my domain admin credentials.<\/p>\n

\"pfdavadmin\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

Once connected I right clicked on Public Folders<\/strong> and selected \u201cShow Deleted Subfolders\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"showdeleted\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

When I did that, all of the subfolders that I accidentally deleted showed up in red. I right clicked on each one and selected RECOVER. After I did that, all public folders were restored!<\/p>\n

Have you gone through the same thing? What tool(s) did you use to recover? Are you going through this now? Hit me up in the comments.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: how to<\/a>,recover<\/a>,exchange 2007<\/a>,public folders<\/a>,deleted<\/a>,free<\/a><\/div>\n


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You ever have a moment when you feel like your world is crashing down all around you, and there may be no possible way of coming back or surviving? Well I felt like that the other night. You see I was decommissioning an Exchange 2007 server, and I messed up on a step where you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}