# Restoring a Mailbox to a Point in Time

Point-in-time restores are useful when you need to revert a mailbox to a state just before an undesired incident occurred in the mailbox.

You can restore messages to a specific date and time. To restore a mailbox or messages to a specific date and time while maintaining the folder structure, you must create a recovery point, and then restore the mailbox or messages from the recovery point.

## Create a Recovery Point

1. From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Office 365.

   The Office 365 apps page appears.

2. On the Monitoring tab, in the Recovery points section, click Create recovery point.

   The Create recovery point dialog box appears.

3. From the Mailbox list, select the mailbox for which you want to create a recovery point.

4. Select the date for the recovery point, and then click Create.

   A message prompts you to confirm the recovery point creation.

5. Click Submit.

   A message displays the recovery point job ID.

   By default, the recovery point expires in 30 days.

## Restore Messages to a Specific Date and Time

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Exchange.

   The Exchange page appears.

2. Click the Exchange app that contains the mailbox that you want to recover.

   The app page appears.

3. On the Mailboxes tab, select the mailbox for which you want to create a recovery point

   The Recovery points calendar appears.

4. Select the date and time for the recovery point, and then click Restore messages.

   All of the messages that meet your search criteria appear in the results.

5. Click Restore, and then select Restore all items matching search criteria.

   The Restore options dialog box appears, with options for restoring to the original location already selected.

6. For if the message exists, specify what to do with existing items:

   - To not overwrite existing items, select Skip.

   - To overwrite existing items, select Unconditionally overwrite. If the existing items have not been modified then they are not overwritten during restore.

7. Click Submit.

## Select the Recovery Point to Browse and Restore the Mailbox

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Microsoft 365.

   The Microsoft 365 Overview page appears.

2. On the Apps tab, click the app that contains the mailbox that you want to restore.

   The app page appears.

3. On the Montoring tab, in the row for the recovery point, click the action button , and then click Restore > Restore messages or Restore > Restore mailbox.

## Related Topics

- To perform a point-in-time restore for the entire Exchange client, see Performing Point-in-time Restores.

- To see other methods for restoring Exchange data, see Browsing and Restoring Messages Using Exchange Mailbox.

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