How to Export Exchange 2010 Mailboxes to PST Using Powershell
Microsoft
Exchange 2010 server introduces a new set of PowerShell commands to export
Exchange 2010 mailboxes to PST for Exchange 2010.
1. By default, no user is allowed to Import/Export the mailboxes from
Exchange PowerShell. In order to view or run Import/Export Cmdlets in Exchange
PowerShell, you need to be given explicit permission.
In order to provide a user with permission to Import and Export, you need
to run the following command from Exchange Management Shell. You can also
assign this permission to a group if necessary using the -Group option:
New-ManagementRoleAssignment
–Role “mailbox import export” –User “USER1”
2. Next we need to create the network
share that will be used as the file path for the exported PST files. All that is required here is a network share
that the Exchange Trusted Subsystem group has read/write permission to.
3. With everything configured properly we
can now use New-MailboxExportRequest to start the mailbox export. The only two required parameters for the
command are the file path to the export PST file, and the name of the mailbox
to export.
New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox username -FilePath
\\SERVERNAME\Psts\Scott.pst
4. To view the status of the request you
can see the progress of all mailbox export requests is to pipe
Get-MailboxExportRequest into the Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics cmdlet.
Get-MailboxExportRequest |
Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics
Note: Please check the
folder weather the PST is copied properly or not, If its copied compare the
size of PST with mailbox size.
5. When a mailbox export request is
completed it remains on the server until it is removed by an administrator
using Remove-MailboxExportRequest
6. And to clear all completed mailbox
export requests from Exchange run the following command.
Get-MailboxExportRequest | where {$_.status -eq
"Completed"} | Remove-MailboxExportRequest
