I am running Exchange 2010 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Machine. This has worked in the past but I cannot figure out why it's not working now.

I am trying to run this:

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-User | where { $_.Company -ilike "BGCAC*" } | Export-Mailbox -PSTFolderPath E:\PST -Exclude Folders "\Deleted Items" -BadItemLimit 1000 -Confirm:$False -StartDate "05/14/2011 12:01:00"

But I get this for all the users:

Error was found for "this user" because: The operation failed., error code: -2147467259
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (21:Int32) [Export-Mailbox], RecipientTaskException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 941A4C65,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.ExportMailbox

I have full access rights and I have Outlook 2010 client installed. I ran an export in Outlook on the server and it worked fine but I need a much larger scale.

Please help.

Looks  like you are still having RTM version of Exchange 2010 which was having Import-Mailbox/Export-Mailbox cmdlets. Can't you upgrade to SP2 or later with latest update rollups?

Reason being that is it has new and improved cmdlets to import/export PSTs and RTM is not supported anymore. - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2615653

Understanding Mailbox Import and Export Requests

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee633455(v=exchg.141).aspx

New-MailboxExportRequest - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607299(v=exchg.141).aspx

New-MailboxImportRequest - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607368(v=exchg.141).aspx

Is it a hard process. I am very new to this environment.

hello kg!

Mailbox exports are tricky. The destination path must be in UNC format (e.g. \\servername\sharename\file.pst) and your server, not your account, must have read/write access to the path. For example, if your Exchange server is MYEXSERV, then the share permissions and the NTFS permissions must grant MYEXSERV at least Read+Write/Modify permissions to \\servername\sharename. See New Mailbox Export Request Returns Access Denied.

hope it helps :)

What if there isn't enough room on any server to export the pst files and I want them to go on an external hard drive?