How to export an Exchange mailbox to PST?
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Barry Allen
April 25, 2019
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Need PST exports of 12 leaver mailboxes for retention. Ran New-MailboxExportRequest and PowerShell says the term is not recognized. Exchange 2013. What am I missing?

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Verified by Mariya Beckham, Forum Moderator ยท Reviewed April 2019

Not recognized means your account lacks the export role. Fix:

1
Grant it: New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role "Mailbox Import Export" -User youradmin then restart the Exchange Management Shell.
2
Export to a UNC share: New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox user -FilePath \\server\share\user.pst. Local paths fail, it must be a share the Exchange Trusted Subsystem can write to.
3
Track progress with Get-MailboxExportRequest | Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics.

For bulk jobs across many mailboxes SysTools Exchange Export does the same through a GUI with batch selection.

Role assignment plus shell restart was it. All 12 exporting to the share now. Solved.