Exporting Exchange 2007 Mailbox Data into PST

Exporting Exchange 2007 Mailbox Data into PST

Exchange 2007 SP1 introduces the following functionality for exporting mailbox data:

· You can export mailbox data from a mailbox to a .pst file. To export to a .pst file, you must use the PSTFolderPath parameter to specify the path to the .pst file to which data will be exported.
You can use the Export-Mailbox cmdlet to export data to either a folder or a .pst file. The source and target mailboxes must exist on a server that is running one of the following versions of Microsoft Exchange:

· Exchange Server 2007

· Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or a later version

· Exchange 2000 Server SP3 or a later version

You cannot export data to a .pst file from a mailbox that is in a recovery storage group (RSG).

Before you perform this procedure, be aware of the following:

• To grant full access to a mailbox, use the Add-MailboxPermission cmdlet and specify FullAccess for the AccessRights parameter.

For example, if Admin01 needs to export data from John's mailbox, you must first run the following command:

Add-MailboxPermission -Identity john -User Admin01 -AccessRights FullAccess

• To export data to a .pst file called john.pst located at C:\PSTFiles, run the following command:

Export-Mailbox -Identity john@contoso.com -PSTFolderPath C:\PSTFiles\john.pst

• To export data from a group of mailboxes, such as all mailboxes for which the user title begins with "VP," run the following command:

Get-User where { $_.Title -ilike "VP*" } Export-Mailbox -TargetFolder VPData -TargetMailbox ExportMailbox

• To export data from all the mailboxes of users in the Marketing organizational unit, run the following command:

Get-Mailbox -OrganizationalUnit Marketing Export-Mailbox -PSTFolderPath C:\PSTFiles

This example exports the data from each mailbox to a separate .pst file located at C:\PSTFiles. The name of each .pst file will be <alias>.pst.

Please let me know if this post was helpful.