Recovering and restoring deleted emails in Outlook is a common problem for which end users turn to their IT departments for help. Recovering permanently deleted messages from your deleted items folder via a very little known built-in Outlook feature might be a Good solution but is very limited in it's capabilities and ease of use features.

A much Better solution for recovering and restoring such permanently (hard) deleted messages is Lucid8's Recovery Advantage for Outlook which provides the ease of use features such as searching, filtering and sorting of such messages or the ability to preview, print or save prior to restoring. The best part about this Outlook Add-on is that we are giving it away for FREE, no strings attached. Just follow the download link and install. We won't even ask you to register on our website.

If you are a IT administrator and frequently have to restore emails for users from backups then you should look at the Best solution in the feature matrix below. Combined with a supported snap capable storage platform Lucid8's Recovery Advantage Server Module provides full end user self-service capabilities enabling end users to search for their own email no longer available on the Exchange Server but are still available and accessible on backups.

If you combine the Best solution with DigiScope you will have a complete solution for all your recovery and eDiscovery needs. Please review Compare Recovery Advantage with DigiScope .

	Limited Features Out of the box	FREE Advanced Features Click to download	Complete Solution2) Click for pricing
Feature Matrix	Good	Better	Best
Feature	Outlook Built in Recovery Feature	Recovery Advantage for Outlook	Recovery Advantage Server Module
Recover items from the live Exchange server no longer in your local Outlook PST/OST file.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Restore individual or all items.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Recover items from the deleted items folder which was emptied within the retention policy time frame.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Recover [shift][deleted] items from within any folder.	No1)	Yes	Yes
Find all recoverable items across all folders.	No	Yes	Yes
Sort recoverable items.	No	Yes	Yes
Filter recoverable items.	No	Yes	Yes
Preview, print, save recoverable items without restoring	No	Yes	Yes
Recover items beyond the retention policy.	No	No	Yes
Seamlessly recover items (no longer on the live Exchange Server) directly from snap backups.	No	No	Yes

1) There is a registry setting which will enable recovering [Shift] [Deleted] items from any folder, but user has to remember what folder the items was in and select the folder prior to using the features.
2) Requires a supported snap capable storage platform such as Dell EqualLogic.