MS Exchange 2016 offers 2 powerful management tools:
- Exchange Admin Center (EAC)
- Exchange Management Shell
The web portal of the Exchange Admin Center offers a lot of useful features to manage the mail server on a daily basis. However, like other recent MS tools, not every action is designed to be performed via GUI.
In this case, we will export a user mailbox in pst format.
Let’s start from reading carefully this doc: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607299(v=exchg.160).aspx
Now we’ll check who are the users that are allowed to export user mailboxes:
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Get-ManagementRoleAssignment | where {$_.role -like "mailbox import export"} |
For more info https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj657480(v=exchg.160).aspx
And if your user is not included, we’ll add him with this cmdlet will add you to that group:
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New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role "Mailbox Import Export" -user USERNAME |
How to export directly to a local or shared path:
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New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox MAILBOXNAME -FilePath "\\SHAREDPATH\MAILBOXNAME.pst" |
Then, finally test it open the pst file with MS Outlook 2016 or Office 365 (File, Open&Export, Open Outlook Data File ).