Microsoft Exchange Server & Email Recovery

Recovering Microsoft Exchange data with Ontrack PowerControls

Recent studies¹ have estimated that over 200 billion email messages are sent worldwide each day. With the continued growth of email exchanges, Microsoft® Exchange administrators are receiving increasingly frequent email recovery and restoration requests.

Ontrack® PowerControls™ software helps Microsoft® Exchange administrators manage these increasing requests by making email recovery a quick, simple and efficient process. Ontrack PowerControls enable organisations recover lost, deleted and archived email messages, mailboxes and/or entire EDB files without the need for a Microsoft Exchange recovery server. The software uses any previous full backup to effortlessly restore individual mailbox items directly to a live production Microsoft Exchange Server or PST file.

Recovery Scenarios

Whether you need to recover a single, specific email or retrieve an entire month's worth - Ontrack PowerControls can help.

• Microsoft Exchange Server outage – Use Ontrack PowerControls to recover all emails since your last backup.
• Recovering accidentally deleted emails – A common request for Microsoft Exchange administrators is to search deleted messages or folders for an internal client. Ontrack PowerControls allows administrators to restore selected messages and attachments from a previous full backup directly to a target mailbox.
• Recovering messages meeting specific criteria – Perhaps a key manager has left your company and you are asked to recover messages related to a specific customer. Use Ontrack PowerControls to set highly targeted search criteria for the messages you want to retrieve, minimising the amount of time needed to open and read unnecessary messages.

Recovering Items

Ontrack PowerControls recovers more than just email messages. Recover virtually any Microsoft® Outlook item or message attachment, including folders, complete mailboxes and entire EDB files:

• Calendar items, tasks, notes and address book contacts
• Message attachment files
• Public Folder database items

Other Benefits

Ontrack PowerControls eliminates the need for individual mailbox or "brick-level" backups:

• No changes to existing backup procedures are required
• No need for installation onto your Microsoft Exchange Server – Ontrack PowerControls runs on a Microsoft® Windows® workstation
• Communicates directly with Microsoft Exchange Server to ensure consistent operation of your server environment 

¹ – Microsoft Exchange® Market Share Statistics, The Radicati Group, March 2006.