Hi .. I'm new on Exchange, I would like to use "Export-Mailbox" to pst file for backup purpose. All my Exchange Server is in our Data Center, and I would like to export from my office. My Exchange environment is 2007 SP2. I tried to install Exchange Management Tool (SP2) on my Windows 7 Laptop, but failed. Can I install Exchange Management Tool (SP3) instead? and any information will be updated on server side after install the Exchange management Tool on my laptop as the Exchange Server is on production and I dont want to have any services impact or data loss. Thank you very much !!

So you're saying that you want to install newer tools than the server is patched to? This is not an issue per se unless you try to use newly introduced features from the tools, something that the server does not understand; if this is the case you might get errors, but you won't be able to damage anything. Not sure if I understood you right, you're a bit vague about your concerns.

Sorry for my unclear information. As I know, if I need to use export-mailbox tool, I need to run on a 32 bit computer. But my Exchange Server is installed on 64 bit environment, so I decided to install the Exchange Management Tool on my Windows 7 laptop to run the tool. My Exchange Server is 2007 SP2, but the Exchange Management Tool (SP2) is not supported Windows 7, so I downloaded Exchange Management Tool (SP3) and installed on my Windows 7 Laptop, is it able to run the tool in different Services Pack version? If so, will the installation update any information, for example, schema, on my Exchange Server or it just install on my Laptop? Hope this can be clear. Thank you!

This is not a problem, the tools only install on the machine where you run setup and won't update anything else. For the remainder, my answer above does apply. It is considered general good practice, not to log in/work with the Domain/Enterprise Admin on a client you use for everyday work - that way you can also be sure that you only have local admin rights (on request through UAC) and will impossibly be able to affect the entire AD, no matter what you install. Later, if you run the EMC from your laptop, it's always possible that you use "Run as different user..." to run it as a privileged Exchange Admin (or Domain Admin for that matter).

Hi Thomas , Exchange 2007 SP3 does have support for windows 2008 R2 and for windows 7. Anyway you can install exchange 2007 management tools on a windows 7 . I tried it and it works properly.