Friday, November 25, 2011

Dumpster Always On - Recovering Deleted Files from Exchange 2003

If the settings on the Exchange server are set to retain deleted mails
for a time and you are within that time period, this allows you to
Recover deleted items from any folder in outlook, including the inbox.

Follow these steps to setup the DumpsterAlwaysOn value in the
registery. Please note, this is done on the PC where outlook is
installed, no settings are required on the Exchange Server.

1. Open up the Registry editor:

2. Click Start, run. Enter Regedt32 and click OK.

3. Navigate to the following entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options

4. Right click the Options folder, click New and then select DWORD
Value. Enter the following details:

Value name: DumpsterAlwaysOn
Data type: DWORD
Value data: 1