Restoring email items such as individual emails or folders with Microsoft Exchange is generally painful.
As a result, there are opportunities for third-party utilities. Two leading offerings are Quest’s Recovery Manager for Exchange and Ontrack PowerControls.
A new option is Lucid8′s DigiScope. This searches archived/previously backed-up Exchange data, and lets you restore a wide variety of items. Lucid8 feels its competitive strengths include powerful and user-friendly search, better export, and pricing.