Large export of mailboxes
Hi
We are running Exchange 2007 SP2.
We're going to be having a large number of users leaving our company to work for a partner company, about 300. We'll need to export their mailboxes from our Exchange 2007 system to a PST file. The mailboxes sizes are varying up to 1GB.
I know there is a command to Export to PST, but I'll need to run this on multiple mailboxes at the same time. I was going to have a CSV file with the list of users, but how many maiboxes will it export at the same time? We're hoping to have the export completed
over a coupleof days.
May 31st, 2012 4:50pm
Hi,
normally a export request is generated which is processed by Exchange in the background. So using a CSV file and processing the file as an input for the export is a good idea. After executing the command you have to wait for some time.
Have you got a question on developing a script in order to process the csv file?
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May 31st, 2012 5:34pm
Hi,
normally a export request is generated which is processed by Exchange in the background. So using a CSV file and processing the file as an input for the export is a good idea. After executing the command you have to wait for some time.
Have you got a question on developing a script in order to process the csv file?
regards Thomas Paetzold visit my blog on: http://sus42.wordpress.com
May 31st, 2012 5:41pm
Hello
Thanks.....if the list contains 300 mailboxes ,will it process only one mbx at a time? is there a way for it to export multiple mailboxes at the same time?
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May 31st, 2012 5:49pm
I can't remember how many it does at a time, but you should have no trouble getting this done in an evening or two.
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May 31st, 2012 7:42pm
I can't remember how many it does at a time, but you should have no trouble getting this done in an evening or two.
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May 31st, 2012 7:49pm
Hi GNoble1979
I found a useful blog that you could refer to
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2007/04/13/3401913.aspx
On the article, it said:
"To export multiple mailboxes to their respective .pst files at once you can pipe in the identities of those mailboxes to the export task. Notice that when bulk exporting the PSTFolderPath parameter must forcefully point to a directory since one .pst file
will be created for each mailbox. "
The Command to use is
Get-Mailbox -Database 'MDB' | Export-Mailbox -PSTFolderPath D:\PSTs
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Zi Feng
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June 1st, 2012 5:00am
Hi GNoble1979
I found a useful blog that you could refer to
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2007/04/13/3401913.aspx
On the article, it said:
"To export multiple mailboxes to their respective .pst files at once you can pipe in the identities of those mailboxes to the export task. Notice that when bulk exporting the PSTFolderPath parameter must forcefully point to a directory since one .pst file
will be created for each mailbox. "
The Command to use is
Get-Mailbox -Database 'MDB' | Export-Mailbox -PSTFolderPath D:\PSTs
Cheers
Zi Feng
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June 1st, 2012 5:07am
Hi
So you think I can run an Export-Mailbox for these 300 mailboxes over a couple of nights?
Couple of questions -
i. Is there any where to make the Powershell window run more than one Export at a time
ii. Is there any reason not to run multiple Powershell windows running on the same server running exports
iii. When the export commands are running on the Utility server, will this have a neglible performance impact on the server where the mailboxes are being hosted? Or does the Utility server running the export take the performance hit?
Thanks for the help
June 2nd, 2012 7:43am
Hi
You can open two or three EMS at the same time, but I am not sure the speed will go up or not.
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June 4th, 2012 2:08am