Recover Hard Deleted (Shift-Delete) Items in Exchange.
// June 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007
Most people think that if you Shift-Delete (hard delete) an item in Outlook that it’s gone permanently. Well that is not correct. What happens is the item skips going to the Deleted Items folder so it can not be recovered by default in the Recover Deleted Items menu. Some people will accidentally do a hard delete and others will do it thinking that the item cannot be recovered. Well it can be and it’s really easy to do so.
- Start Registry Editor.
- Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options
- On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:
Value name: DumpsterAlwaysOn
Data type: DWORD
Value data: 1 - Close Registry Editor.
Once you have the registry edited you can then go into Recover Deleted Items and see everything that was hard deleted. If you want just follow the Microsoft KB below and they have made it a Fix It KB article so you can just download that and have it done for you.