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Contacts

Afi backup for Exchange contacts includes all user contacts together with all the corresponding metadata (photo, addresses, phones, website, notes, etc.) and preserves contact folder structure.

Browse

You can search contact details such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and notes. For phone numbers, you can enter just a few consecutive digits.

This example finds contacts with Northwind in any of their fields:

Another example finds contacts with 20255501 in one of their phone numbers:

To search a specific field, open Filter and select it from the list.

Search with the Filter menu open

Export

Exchange contacts can be exported as PST and VCF. A user can select individual contacts or contact folders, as well as all contacts inside a mailbox, for export.

Recovery

A user can restore selected contacts, contact folders, or all contacts in a mailbox to the same or another mailbox. The following recovery modes are available:

  • Recover to a separate folder - restore selected contacts under a folder(s) with the specified suffix. You can specify your own suffix or proceed with a system-generated one (Restored by AFI/<date>).
  • Overwrite existing content - restore selected contacts in place. This recovery mode should be used with caution as it will replace items that already exist in the restore destination mailbox in case of a conflict. Any other existing items that don't conflict with the data being restored are preserved upon restore.

This example restores the Personal, Sales, and Work folders with the suffix afi restore.

Personal, Sales, and Work contact folders selected for recovery

The restored Work (afi restore) folder contains the Alex Wilber contact:

Notice

When using the Exchange web interface, please make sure that the New Contacts feature is disabled when using the Recover to a separate folder restore mode.