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In this Blog we will see how to Restore an Soft Deleted Mail box in O365


Connect to Office 365 using below powershell commands 

$UserCredential = Get-Credential 

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection 

Import-PSSession $Session

Command To List all the Soft Deleted Mailboxs.

Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox | Select DisplayName,ExchangeGuid,PrimarySmtpAddress,ArchiveStatus,DistinguishedName

Below command to export all the Soft Deleted mail boxes to an Excel

Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox | Select DisplayName,ExchangeGuid,PrimarySmtpAddress,ArchiveStatus,DistinguishedName | Export-Csv c:Softdeleted.csv

From the above command identify the mail box which we are trying to restore and copy the ExchangeGUID

$SoftMailbox = Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox <Exchagne GUID>

Mail Box Move request 

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceMailbox $SoftMailbox.DistinguishedName -TargetMailbox <Enter Traget mailbox where to restore mail@contoso.com> �AllowLegacyDNMismatch

To check the Restore Progress 

Get-MailboxRestoreRequest -Identity mail@contoso.com

To get the progress in Percentage Complete 

Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics -Identity mail@contoso.com



Hope this help any one trying to restore Softdeleted mailboxes