Exchange 2010 Mailbox PST export - New-MailboxExportRequest

Remember the Export-Mailbox command on exchange 2007??? The main problem I personally had was the annoying outlook requirement. 

With the exchange server 2010 service pack 1 release, M$ introduced a new Cmdlet to export mailboxes on the server. And it does not require outlook.

New-MailboxExportRequest

Step 01 - Mailbox Import Export Role Assignment

Grant the user account permissions to export mailboxes (By default no account has the privileges to export mailboxes)

New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role "Mailbox Import Export" -User administrator

Step 02 - Setup the Export File Location

We need a network share to export files. (Eg - \\Exch01\PST_export)

Note:

The Cmdlet gives an error if you point to a directory directly on the Hardisk (Eg - F:\PST_export)

Create a Shared folder on a server\NAS and grant Exchange Trusted Subsystem user account read/write permissions to the folder

Exporting Mailbox Items with "New-MailboxExportRequest"

Supporting Cmdlets that can be used with MailboxExportRequest

Cmdlet	Description	Topic
New-MailboxExportRequest	Start the process of exporting a mailbox or personal archive to a .pst file. You can create more than one export request per mailbox. Each request must have a unique name.	Create a Mailbox Export Request
Set-MailboxExportRequest	Change export request options after the request is created or recover from a failed request.	Configure Mailbox Export Request Properties
Suspend-MailboxExportRequest	Suspend an export request any time after the request is created but before the request reaches the status of Completed.	Suspend a Mailbox Export Request
Resume-MailboxExportRequest	Resume an export request that’s suspended or failed.	Resume a Mailbox Export Request
Remove-MailboxExportRequest	Remove fully or partially completed export requests. Completed export requests aren’t automatically cleared. You must use this cmdlet to remove them.	Remove a Mailbox Export Request
Get-MailboxExportRequest	View general information about an export request.	View Mailbox Export Request Properties
Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics	View detailed information about an export request.	View Mailbox Export Request Properties

From <http://exclusivelyexchange.com/export-mailbox-exchange-2010/>

In this example

Shared folder name-  PST_export

server name- EXCH01

Share Path -  \\Exch01\PST_export

Mailbox - amy.webber

Folder permissions - 

For this example we are going to use New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet with the following parameters :

-baditemlimit 200 -AcceptLargeDataLoss

AcceptLargeDataLoss	The AcceptLargeDataLoss parameter specifies that a large amount of data loss is acceptable if the BadItemLimit is set to 51 or higher. Items are considered corrupted if the item can't be read from the source database or can't be written to the target database. Corrupted items won't be available in the destination mailbox or .pst file.
baditemlimit	The BadItemLimit parameter specifies the number of bad items to skip if the request encounters corruption in the mailbox. Use 0 to not skip bad items. The valid input range for this parameter is from 0 through 2147483647. The default value is 0.

From <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607299(v=exchg.150).aspx> 

Exporting the Whole Mailbox

Run the following Cmdlet to initiate the mailbox move request:  New-MailboxExportRequest

New-MailboxExportRequest -baditemlimit 200 -AcceptLargeDataLoss -Mailbox amy.webber -FilePath \\Exch01\PST_export\amy.webber.pst

Exporting the User's Online Archive

If you want to export the user’s online archive to .pst, use the –IsArchive parameter.

New-MailboxExportRequest -baditemlimit 200 -AcceptLargeDataLoss -Mailbox amy.webber  -IsArchive -FilePath \\Exch01\PST_export\amy.webber-Archive.pst

Exporting a Specific Folder

You can export a folder from the users mailbox using the -IncludeFolders parameter

Eg: inbox folder layout-

To export the inbox folder

New-MailboxExportRequest -baditemlimit 200 -AcceptLargeDataLoss -Mailbox amy.webber -IncludeFolders #Inbox# -FilePath \\Exch01\PST_export\amy.webber.pst

Checking the Progress of the Mailbox Export Request

To check the current statues of the mailbox export request use the following cmdlet:

Get-MailboxExportRequest | Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics

People do crazy stuff scripting with this Cmdlet. Look around in the interwebs for some scripts.

Useful links:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607299%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

http://exclusivelyexchange.com/export-mailbox-exchange-2010/

http://exchangeserverpro.com/exchange-server-2010-mailbox-import-request-logging/

Until next time…