How to export a PST from an Exchange 2010 with Powershell

First of all, we nee to create a share where to send our pst’s export task

Credo una condivisione dove andrò a destinare i miei pst.

After that i need to assign the NTFS to the group “Exchange Trusted Subsystem “

Now we need to assign the Mailbox Import Export role to  Administrators group.

New–ManagementRoleAssignment –Role “Mailbox Import Export” –User Administrators

now we are ready to issue the export command:

 This is an example :

[PS] C:\>New–MailboxExportRequest –Mailbox alan.reid –FilePath “\\FQDN\Share\esp–ho–ex2010apstalan.reid.pst”

To see the status of our export request this is the command:

To remove an export request :

Get-MailboxExportRequest -Status Completed | Remove-MailboxExportRequest

In our case, we’ve had some “failed” export . So now we need to understand the reason why .

this is the command:

Now we can open the report of failed tasks and see why is failed..

In our case, we had some problems with AV scan that locked the PST destination file…