Hi Everyone.

Every month we have to  export around 50 to100 mailbox to PST for users leaving process and the below command we use to export for each users manually.

Command : New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox AylaKol -FilePath \\MBX-01\PSTFileShare\Ayla.pst

I would like to export the list of  user's mailbox using a script and I got the below commands from another forum  and tried  to export with 2 test mailboxs.

Mailbox were queued as mentioned below,But the result is only one .pst file generate named ".PST".

[PS] C:\>$Export = Get-Content .\Users\exadmin\Desktop\Mailbox.txt

[PS] C:\>$Export|%{$_|New-MailboxExportRequest -FilePath "\\servername\D$\Export\PST\$($_.alias).pst"}

Name                                       Mailbox                                                         Status

----                                           -------                                                              ------

MailboxExport                         ch.india.com/Non ch accounts/Users/Ram...    Queued

MailboxExport                         ch.india.com/Non ch accounts/Users/Kha...     Queued

Please advise if I need to change any think in the command or kindly share any script

Hi Amjath,

you can't use the previous automatic $_ variable behind a pipeline-"|". Here's a slight rewrite that ought to work:

# Get list of Mailboxes
$Export = Get-Content .\Users\exadmin\Desktop\Mailbox.txt

# For each mailbox start an Export request
foreach ($mb in $Export) { $mb | New-MailboxExportRequest -FilePath "\\servername\D`$\Export\PST\$mb.pst"}

Cheers,

Hi Fred,

No luck.

only one .pst file generated in the given file path

Thanks.

Hi Amjath,

found the error in above code (both yours and mine):

In the filepath parameter we user $mb.Alias for the filename. That is wrong, because $mb is a simple string, not an actual mailbox. I edited my previous post, the code should now work for any amount of Mailboxes.

Cheers,
Fred

Prefect script Fred. Youre awesome

Thanks a lot !