I have searched about this about could not find a definitive answer in any documentation. When using export -mailbox to search for specific emails on an exchange server, does it simply copy the messages into a folder or pst or will it pull all messages and move them from the original destination? Thank You

export-mailbox will copy this emails, if you want to remove emails from source mailbox you have to use -deletecontent at the end of export-mailbox Regards Rem

yes export-mailbox without -deletecontent only copies across, if you want to delete then you must specify -deletecontent you can read it all here http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2006/11/28/3397373.aspxRegards Herbert Zimbizi

thank you for the quick responses.

Will running export - mailbox searches affect the performance of the exchange server to where it would be noticeable to the users? If so, should the search be run after hours??

can someone give me a hand and look at my syntax? I cant get this to run get-mailbox –Database "Mailbox Database" | Export-Mailbox –SubjectKeywords "Insurance" –TargetMailbox Administrator –TargetFolder Search -Startdate "04/01/2010 12:01:00" Thanks

hm what kind of error you have ? I use something like that: Export-Mailbox -identity "some user" -StartDate "2011/09/01" -EndDate "2011/09/30" -PSTFolderPath "\\server\share\file.pst" -deletecontent or Export-Mailbox -identity someuser -StartDate "2011/09/27" -EndDate "2011/10/25" -SubjectKeywords "*some subject*" -TargetFolder 'exportfolder' -TargetMailbox targetmailbox or Get-mailbox -database 'database1' | export-mailbox –SubjectKeywords "subject_some" -TargetFolder "exportedData" -TargetMailbox Administrator –DeleteContent you can have problem with date format, sometimes it's better to use function date like: Export-Mailbox -identity someuser -StartDate $((get-date).adddays(-30)) -EndDate $((get-date).adddays(-1)) -SubjectKeywords "*some subject*" -TargetFolder 'exportfolder' -TargetMailbox targetmailbox

thanks. If I was doing a keywords search would i just put all the keywords i wanted to search in one long quotation. Like for example -SenderKeywords "Sports Basketball Baseball Hockey Football Soccer" or does each one have to be quoted separated by commas?