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Hey hi everyone this is Raman from Admin365
and today we are going to talk about how to

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recover files from the first stage or second
stage to recycle them from OneDrive or SharePoint

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with the help of PowerShell commands all at
once. So let's get started. So the command

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which we are going to use right now is the
command provided by SharePointDiary.com over

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the internet. This is not official command
so if you want to perform it you can perform

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it on your test tenant first before performing
it on a live environment and once it works

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for your test tenant you can give it a try
for your live environment as well. But in

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this video we are going to perform it right
away. You can see the results and use them

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if you want. So let's get started. So for
example if you have files deleted in the first

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stage recycle bin which you can see here.
This is Office 365 groups and the files were

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deleted from the document section and as you
can see it is now in the recycle bin. There

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are two files in here. One file in folder
and in case if you have multiple files in

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here and you don't want to select each of
them and then click on restore. Even though

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if you click on all options you might or you
have to scroll down till the bottom of the

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page in case you want to recover the files.
So that might not be efficient for all the

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admins out there. So in that case you have
a command which basically recovers only the

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files which is deleted by the user, a specific
user and not all the files present in the

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recycle bin. So for example if the file is
deleted by a certain user in this case as

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you can see it is admin and if you have multiple
files in the recycle bin, few of them which

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you want to restore which has been deleted by
the user and the other which are the files

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which you don't want to restore. So in that
case the command would be certainly helpful

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for you as well. So you just have to open
PowerShell and run it as an admin's credit

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Get the required permissions. Alright we
have it open here and as you can see all the

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commands are mentioned in this word document
itself. We will perform them each step by

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step in order to get the files recovered from
the first page or the second page of the recycle

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bin. So the first command is this here to
install the PMP PowerShell which we basically

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use for SharePoint. You just have to copy
and paste it here or you can just type it

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manually as well. Hit enter. Go install the
module. And in case if you are having error

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with installation of the module, you might
want to use PowerShell version 7. That might

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fix the issue. But as you can see it is installed
pretty easily on my computer here. I am running

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on Windows 10 and which is up to date as per
the OS. And we will run this command just

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to be sure if there is a PMP update. Might
update it or it might show us what are the

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updates available. You may or may not need
to update it as per your choice. And as you

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can see it is not giving any prompt. That's
good. So this is the part where it connects

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to the site where it holds the recycle bin
and all the documents. So we will go in here

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and this is the site and we will go to the
home page of this site and this is what we

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need in terms of URL to enter it. So you just
have to copy it from the URL bar on the top

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and go back to the command and you may just
replace that with the part which you have

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copied. And we will run it just to connect.
And it will ask for the email address and

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password of the admin. And do make sure that
you are using an admin account which does

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not have multi-factor authentication turned
on. Otherwise it will not connect via this

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method. So I will add the admin address and
password. Enter. And this is the message which

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says that there is a new version available.
You can install it if you want. But I think

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I have a latest one as of now. And it would
not ask for free email. So we will skip that

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And after it connects, we will run this command
to get the items which are available in the

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recycle bin. And as you can see this parameter
is referred to first page. You can use second

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page here as well. That will bring up the
files which are in the second page recycle

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bin. And this get means it will not do any
changes there. It will just show you the results

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So we will copy this. And as you can see it
shows us the title which is the name and type

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of the file available as well. Which is folder
and file and document name and the folder

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name itself. So general and document docs.
Which we can confirm it from the recycle bin

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in here. General and docs. Alright. So we
are connected to a proper place where we want

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to restore the files from. We will go back
to the document and we will use this command

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So basically this command is where we get to
choose which file we want to recover from

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the recycle bin. This shows the parameter or
the user email address which the data command

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will recover it using. So we will just replace
it with the account email address which has

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been used to delete the file. Alright. So once I have copied
it. I will paste it in here. Hit enter. And this is up

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to you can verify it by just running this.
And it will show you what information it has

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stored in that parameter. And that is what we
want it to be. Alright. And now this parameter

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dollar item will basically store the files or
the information which this user has deleted

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from the recycle bin. So we can just copy this
and paste it in here and hit enter. So now

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every file present in the recycle bin has been
stored in dollar item and which has been deleted

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by this user is even deleted. So you can make sure
the same as well whether you have the correct

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file stored in dollar item. What you have to do
is just copy this and paste it in here. Hit enter

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And as you can see the information which it is
having stored in it. So it shows two files which are

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deleted by this user to be stored in it. And the
next command will use the dollar item to restore the

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files within it. So as you can see it's a for loop
which will basically restore each and every item

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present in that dollar item. Hit force. You just
have to copy this. And once you run the command the

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files will be restored itself. So we will try another
example quickly. So as you can see this is on the

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same site but it is a different list or a different
document library is done and it has certain folders

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within it. So we will go back here. We will get rid of
all of them from here. Delete. And it went back to the

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deleted recycle bin which is the first stage. We want
to recover files which has been deleted by certain

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individuals. So we will have to perform this change
filling the information in here. As you can see it does

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have the same email address in here. We will go back to
storing all the files in the dollar item parameter. We will

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confirm the same as well but we know on dollar item. And
as you can see the file title ffmpp are present in here

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The same ffmpp in the recycle bin. And we will go back and
perform the steps to recover it. So this is the command

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again which will recover all the files from the recycle bin.
Deleted by that user itself and not all the files. So once you

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hit enter. There you go it has been recovered itself. So we
can go back in here. Refresh the page and you can see the

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file would be gone. And it would be back in the document
library itself the same way it was there earlier. It should have

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the files written in it as well as you can see it. So this
is when we want to recover files deleted by certain user

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itself or user account. But if in case we want to retrieve or
recover everything from the SharePoint Recycle Bin. We just

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have to perform this command which basically recovers everything
present in the first recycle bin. You can choose which

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second recycle bin as well. And that will solve the problem. So
we will go back and remove the files from here again. Delete

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And as you can see it has got in the recycle bin. So we will
run this command. So basically if we remove this part right. It

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will show us the files in the first place. You can confirm
that as well. And then you can perform this together

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Ok let me just paste it again. And hit enter. And it will
give you the form as well. You can press Y and press Y again

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You can use I think force to do it all at once without even asking
you for the permission. And once we go back in here. You will see the

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files which have been recovered itself and present in the document
library where it was earlier as well. So there you go guys. If you

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have any questions or doubts. You can drop a comment as well. Please
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And with that being said.
You guys have a nice day. Bye