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Published inAug 2023
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781804611920
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Peter Rising
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Peter Rising

Peter Rising has over 25 years' experience in IT. He has worked for several IT solutions providers and private organizations in a variety of technical and leadership roles, with a focus on Microsoft technologies. Since 2014, Peter has specialized in the Microsoft 365 platform, focusing most recently on security and compliance in his role as a Consulting Services Manager for Insight. Peter is heavily involved in the wider Microsoft community and has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP. He holds several Microsoft certifications, including MCSE: Productivity; Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert; and Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
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Finding and recovering deleted Microsoft 365 data

In addition to retention, it is important to have an understanding of what happens when content is deleted from locations in Microsoft 365 and what steps you can take to recover that content. First, let’s take a look at how this applies to user mailboxes.

User mailboxes

There are two types of deleted Exchange Online user mailboxes. These are hard-deleted mailboxes and soft-deleted mailboxes:

  • A hard-deleted mailbox is a mailbox that has been soft-deleted for more than 30 days, and the associated Azure AD user has been hard-deleted. There are various scenarios that can apply to hard-deleted mailboxes. Refer to the Further reading section for links to more information about this. Hard-deleted mailboxes cannot be recovered.
  • A soft-deleted mailbox is one that has been deleted either via the Microsoft 365 admin center or using the Remove-Mailbox PowerShell cmdlet, after which it has remained in the Azure AD recycle...
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Peter Rising

Peter Rising has over 25 years' experience in IT. He has worked for several IT solutions providers and private organizations in a variety of technical and leadership roles, with a focus on Microsoft technologies. Since 2014, Peter has specialized in the Microsoft 365 platform, focusing most recently on security and compliance in his role as a Consulting Services Manager for Insight. Peter is heavily involved in the wider Microsoft community and has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP. He holds several Microsoft certifications, including MCSE: Productivity; Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert; and Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
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