Soft deleted and hard deleted mailbox

Question

Pls explain below powershell commands.

Remove-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName <Walter Harp> -RemoveFromRecycleBin

Undo-SoftDeletedMailbox allieb@Company portal .com -WindowsLiveID allieb@Company portal .com -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'Pa$$word1' -AsPlainText -Force)

Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox | Select-Object Name,ExchangeGuid

Get-Mailbox -Identity <NameOrAliasOfNewTargetMailbox> | Format-List ExchangeGuid

Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-MailboxStatistics | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq "Disabled"} | Format-Table DisplayName,MailboxGuid,LegacyDN,Database

Get-Mailbox -Identity "<MailboxIdentity>" | Format-List Name,ExchangeGuid,LegacyExchangeDN

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -RemoteRestoreType DisconnectedMailbox -RemoteHostName <ServerFQDN> -RemoteCredential (Get-Credential) -RemoteDatabaseGuid <GUID> -SourceStoreMailbox <MailboxGUID> -TargetMailbox <ExchangeGUID>

Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics -Identity <MailboxRestoreRequestIdentity> -IncludeReport

Answer 1

Hi @Gurudas

You could check the complete steps introduced here: Delete or restore user mailboxes in Exchange Online

Remove-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName <Walter Harp> -RemoveFromRecycleBin
This command removes Walter Harp from the Azure Active Directory recycle bin. The command prompts you to confirm the operation. This command permanently removes the user.

Undo-SoftDeletedMailbox allieb@Company portal .com -WindowsLiveID allieb@Company portal .com -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'Pa$$word1' -AsPlainText -Force)
This command recovers the deleted mailbox for the user allieb@Company portal .com. When this mailbox was deleted, the associated Microsoft account (formerly known as a Windows Live ID) wasn't deleted. Note that a new Microsoft account and password have to be created to recover this mailbox. In the scenario, the old Microsoft account is retained as a proxy address for the mailbox.

Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox | Select-Object Name,ExchangeGuid
This command is used to identify the soft-deleted mailbox that you want to restore
The SoftDeletedMailbox switch is required to return soft-deleted mailboxes in the results.

Get-Mailbox -Identity <NameOrAliasOfNewTargetMailbox> | Format-List ExchangeGuid
This command is used to to get the GUID value of the target mailbox

Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-MailboxStatistics | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq "Disabled"} | Format-Table DisplayName,MailboxGuid,LegacyDN,Database
This command is used to show the required MailboxGuid value of the disconnected mailbox

Get-Mailbox -Identity "<MailboxIdentity>" | Format-List Name,ExchangeGuid,LegacyExchangeDN
This command is used to show the required ExchangeGuid value

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -RemoteRestoreType DisconnectedMailbox -RemoteHostName <ServerFQDN> -RemoteCredential (Get-Credential) -RemoteDatabaseGuid <GUID> -SourceStoreMailbox <MailboxGUID> -TargetMailbox <ExchangeGUID>
This command is used to restore to Exchange Online mailbox

Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics -Identity <MailboxRestoreRequestIdentity> -IncludeReport
This command is used to view detailed information about restore requests
The IncludeReport switch specifies whether to return additional details, which can be used for troubleshooting.

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