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Exchange Server 2003 & Finding emails

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by acgphx 1 view

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I'm in a position where a network I administer is asking me to locate all email from/to a specific external individual within a certain date range. I used MS Tracking in the System Manager and came up blank. I know, as does the client, that several emails should exist.

The enduser admits deleting the emails from his workstation(Outlook 2003). Circumstances are such that those email are despirately needing to be located to verify a legal claim.

My question is: How can I do a thorough search of the Exchange 2003 data that will include all email ever sent from and received by the server?

I have the specific email address and the date range.

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by thumbsup2

That's where our searches always take place. In the back-ups.

by acgphx

Yes, there are backups going back at least one month. I was hoping that there were something native that could scour the live server for the mail. The backup was my idea of a last resort.

by nimmo

Depending on the limit set for the length of time that tracking logs are to be kept you may be out of luck doing a search through the system manager.

If you reqularly archive email you can always go back to the approximate date and search for the email that way.

Try and get as much infomation as you can from the person who sent it, that way you can narrow down your searching.

by acgphx

I believe the archive hunt will be my next step. Its unclear to me how often the tracking logs are kept (new client-preexisting installation).

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