Exporting Mailbox to PST File In Microsoft Exchange

Overview

This article provides a Cmdlets for exporting a mailbox for an Exchange server. It also provides Cmdlets for viewing export requests. This can be useful in a number of ways. Say that you want to keep/archive mail of a user that has left the company. This is a good way to keep the data just in case there’s a need for it.

Note that in order to export to a file share, you will first need a file share. The Exchange Trusted Subsystem security group will need permissions to the shared folder you’ll be exporting to. These permissions include Read for imports, Read/Write for exports.

PowerShell

This Cmdlet will export the mailbox of the USERNAME to the file path of whatever you replace FILEPATH with. This could be the path of a network share or locally where the PST file is going.

New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox USERNAME -FilePath \\FILE\PATH.pst

The Cmdlet below will list all of the Mailbox Export Requests that are in progress, completed, or error out.

Get-MailboxExportRequest

If you would like to remove all mailbox export requests, you can use the following Cmdlet. This will obtain a list of all export requests and remove them. You will be prompted to confirm that you would like to do this.

Get-MailboxExportRequest | Remove-MailboxExportRequest

As always, if there are any questions, please email me and I’ll be happy to answer them.