Exchange 2010 – Export Mailbox to PST

To export a mailbox to PST is relatively a simple process but there are a few steps to do before you jump into this. Here are the steps:

1. Grant the User access to the Role as by default there are not users assigned to the Import/Export Management role.
2. Create a Network Share and Grant the Exchange Trusted Subsystem Read/Writes.
3. Exporting the Mailbox
4. Monitoring the Export

Granting Access to the Role:

• New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Role “Mailbox Import Export” –User User

Granting Access to the Share:

Exporting the Mailbox:

• New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox User -FilePath \fileserverpstUser.pst

Monitoring the Mailbox Export:

• Get-MailboxExportRequest | Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics

If you want to Export a Users Mailbox Archive you need to include the “-IsArchive” option at the end of the command:

• New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox User -FilePath \fileserverpstUser.pst -IsArchive

Hope it helps.