Hi there! Welcome to my blog. My name is Ivan. I am a Dutch IT Professional working as Principal IT Consultant. After Microsoft released Exchange Server Service Pack 1 (SP1) they added new functionality called Export-Mailbox cmdlet for Exchange Management Shell.
The Export-Mailbox cmdlet exports all message types, including messages, calendar items, contacts, distribution lists, journal entries, tasks, notes, and documents. However, the Export-Mailbox cmdlet does not export rules.
To export data from a .PST file, you must run the Export-Mailbox cmdlet on a 32-bit computer that has the 32-bit version of the Exchange management tools and Outlook 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Outlook 2007 installed.
Well all prerequisites were in place; I opened the Exchange Management Shell and run the following command line:
C:\Documents and Settings\admin>Export-Mailbox -identity user1 -PSTFolderPath c:\user1.pst
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Exporting mailbox content from the mailbox ‘Ivan Versluis’ into .pst file ‘c:\Ivan.pst’. This operation may take a long time to
complete.
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is “Y”): y
Export-Mailbox : Error was found for ‘Ivan Versluis’ (user1(at)networknet.nl) because: Error occurred in the step: Moving messages. Failed to copy messages to the destination mailbox store with error:
MAPI or an unspecified service provider.
ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000, error code: -1056749164
At line:1 char:15
+ Export-Mailbox <<<< -identity ‘Ivan Versluis’ -PSTFolderPath c:\Ivan.pst
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (0:Int32) [Export-Mailbox], RecipientTaskException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DFCFF30D,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.ExportMailbox
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Exporting mailbox content from the mailbox ‘Ivan Versluis’ into .pst file ‘c:\Ivan.pst’. This operation may take a long time to
complete.
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is “Y”): y
Export-Mailbox : Error was found for ‘Ivan Versluis’ (user1(at)networknet.nl) because: Error occurred in the step: Moving messages. Failed to copy messages to the destination mailbox store with error:
MAPI or an unspecified service provider.
ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000, error code: -1056749164
At line:1 char:15
+ Export-Mailbox <<<< -identity ‘Ivan Versluis’ -PSTFolderPath c:\Ivan.pst
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (0:Int32) [Export-Mailbox], RecipientTaskException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DFCFF30D,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.ExportMailbox
The export failed. After reading some posts on Google, I found the solution myself. I tried to export my own mailbox which worked fine so the problem has to be within the permissions set. To get full access run the Add-MailboxPermissions cmdlet.
How to export Exchange mailbox into a PST file?
Add-MailboxPermission -identity user1 -Accessrights FULLACCESS -User admin
Export-Mailbox -identity user1 -PSTFolderPath c:\user1.pst
With these steps I can develop a procedure to backup mailboxes when they are removed from the system.
Kobina
Ivan,
I had been searching a while for a solution and then I saw yours.
It worked like a charm. Much appreciated.
Ivan Versluis
Hi Kobina,
You are welcome. It took me a while to figure out these steps.