I’ve written an article on doing this in 2010 but seemed to have skipped 2007, so here goes… The first step in exporting mailboxes is to make sure that the account you’re using to export mailboxes has permissions to do so. In this case, we’ll give the exportadmin account Import and Export options using the New-ManagementRoleAssignment cmdlet in Exchange 2010: New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Role “Mailbox Import Export” –User exportadmin Next, you’ll need a system with Outlook 2010 and the Exchange Management Tools installed. From here, you can export mailboxes into PST files. To do so, run the Export-Mailbox cmdlet with the -Identity option to include the account name of a user and…
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Selectively Import PST Files Into Outlook
I’ve written plenty about exporting mailboxes from Exchange. But what if you need to perform a selective import into Outlook? This is helpful for importing mail in date ranges, using an import to search for terms (common with litigation holds) and importing contacts and calendars. To get started, click Open from the File ribbon. When prompted, click on Import/Export. At the Import and Export Wizard screen, click on “Import from another program or file” At the “Import a File” screen, click on “Outlook Data File (pst)” At the Import Outlook Data File screen, choose the mailbox to import into and then click on the Filter button. Using the filtering…
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Exchange Server 2010 PowerShell Mailbox Exports
Need to export mailboxes from Exchange? Hate using exmerge to do so. Gone are the days of exmerge. Well, not entirely. But welcome to the days of New-MailboxExportRequest. Much longer and cooler command than exmerge ever thought about being. C:\>New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox cedge -FilePath \\kryptedexchange.krypted.com\pst\cedge.pst You then receive confirmation that the export has been queued: Name Mailbox Status ---- ------- ------ MailboxExport https://krypted.com//Users/cedge... Queued To view the status, swap New with Get (Get-MailboxExportRequest): Get-MailboxExportRequest The output is as follows: Name Mailbox Status ---- ------- ------ MailboxExport https://krypted.com//Users/cedge... InProgress To get even more info, use the -Name option with Get-MailboxExportRequest, identifying the actual process name. Get-MailboxExportRequest -Name MailboxExport | fl The output…
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Bulk Exporting of PST Files Using Exmerge
To automate the process of exporting Exchange mailboxes to .pst files, we’re going to use the exmerge tool using a Windows batch file. We can use a MAILBOXES.TXT file to choose which mailboxes we’ll be using and possibly a SUBJECTS.TXT or ATTACHMENTS.TXT to constrain our searches. To run the exmerge, run as a typical GUI based merge but save the search. Once saved, you’ll be able to select a path, which we’ll call c:\tmpexmerge. In here, you should see an EXMERGE.INI as well as a MAILBOXES.TXT (and possibly a few other files. In the MAILBOXES.TXT file you’ll see the CN information for the mailboxes selected in the previous: /O=FIRST ORGANIZATION/OU=FIRST…