Exchange 2010 sp2 extract files

Plus, you can also export the mailboxes to a live Exchange or Office account directly. Following are the methods to export Exchange mailbox to PST file format. Based on your needs and server configuration, you may follow any of the following methods. Microsoft Exchange Server SP1 was introduced with a new set of PowerShell cmdlets to perform various backup and migration tasks, such as exporting the mailboxes from Exchange database to PST format.

However, each request will execute sequentially. Also, at a time only one request is executed as the mailbox is marked "in-use" when the request begins to run.

To execute the New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet and create PST export request, the user account that you are going to use must have the Mailbox Import Export role and permissions assigned with full rights.

Matter of fact, not even the admin have these rights and permissions by default. Thus, you need to assign these permissions and roles manually by executing the following command in EMS. This command assigns permission and role to 'Administrator ' to perform Mailbox Import Export. In case you are using other account, replace administrator with the username to assign roles and permissions.

Thus, you must ensure that the path of the PST file is valid. This path has to be UNC, not a local path. Now that everything is setup and configured properly, you can execute the following PowerShell cmdlets to create various mailbox export requests to export Exchange mailboxes to PST.

The last requirement is to create a network share to save your. The reason you want this on a network share is because the mailbox export request is processed by the CAS Server, when you have multiple CAS Servers it should be accessible by all servers.

After the Export is completed it remains on the server until it is removed using the Remove-MailboxExportRequest command. If you would like to make this pst-export more interactive the one-liner can be changed to a small powershell script. The script ask you for the username and exports it to a username. Thank you for the above help. I need one more thing from you. How would i 1 — make a script so it can prompt me for the user name 2 — and then using that user name to name the pst file.

The post is updated with the interactive script. OMG, you rock!!!. It worked beautifully, thanks so much for the quick reply and the awesome script. You have a new follower. My exchange version is Quick question, I would like to backup all user mailboxes on say a monthly basis. Jay This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Nick-C This person is a verified professional.

Oh and you might need to grant user rights to the admin account to allow it to export New-ManagementRoleAssignment —Role "Mailbox Import Export" —User Administrator Should be fine as long as you create the path and share it to the user you are logged in as to export the pst. Thanks for the sytnax jay worked perfectly :- Cheers James. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting.