You do not normally need to restore archived items to your mailbox, as you can view them easily from their shortcuts or from Virtual Vault. If you do restore items, they are restored in their original format. For example, if a restored item is a mail message, you can still reply as normal.
You can restore archived items in either of the following ways:
By using their shortcuts. You can restore items from shortcuts to the current folder (where the shortcuts are) or to a special Enterprise Vault folder that is called Restored Items. If the Restored Items folder does not exist, Enterprise Vault automatically creates it. You can also choose to delete the shortcuts when the items have been restored.
By using the normal Outlook actions to copy or move the items from your Virtual Vault to your mailbox.
If you want to restore items to a public folder, you must have Owner access to the folder. If you do not have Owner access, you can copy a shortcut from a public folder to your mailbox. Then you can restore the item to your mailbox.
Enterprise Vault may take some time to restore any items that are stored offline.
To restore archived items from shortcuts
If the shortcuts are in a public folder or a PST file, copy them to a folder in your mailbox.
In your mailbox, select shortcuts to items that you want to restore. Use the normal Outlook selection to select single or multiple shortcuts. You can include any items that are not shortcuts. Enterprise Vault ignores such items.
Click Restore from Vault on the toolbar or, on the Tools menu, click Enterprise Vault > Restore from Vault.
Select the settings that you require. For details of the settings, click Help in the Restore Item dialog box.
Click OK to confirm that you want to restore the items. The original items are restored to your mailbox.
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