Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Export to PST from Exchange 2007

There was a nice time in the past when you could run ExMerge and export users mailboxes to your hearts content although in exchange 2007 onwards they've done away with such GUI goodness and replaced it with some exchange powerscripts... The command we're interested in is Export-Mailbox and requires the following parameters.

Export-Mailbox –Identity <mailboxUser> -PSTFolderPath <pathToSavePST>

Pretty simple right???? WRONG!
You can't run this on a 64bit machine (exchange 2007 is 64bit only for production release), because of the outlook components required it has to be run on a 32bit machine which means installing the Exchange Management Tools software again on a separate machine along with outlook 2003 or 2007 :s

Pretty lame but it does allow you to export mailboxes larger than 2GB which I found a rather annoying constraint of Exmerge.

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