I have a legal discovery that I need to export into PST files, I can't export into 1 file because the discovery is over 24 gb in size. I used the Discovery feature via the ECP console and got my results they are saved in a mailbox called DiscoveryMailbox all results for each person involved are located within the Mailbox under a folder called Subject then there are subfolders for each person named in the Discovery for example Here is a Tree Subject>Mark L Then there are the normal mailbox folders underneath each name I tried the following command and it's not giving me the results I am looking for, need some urgent advice: New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox DiscoveryMailbox -IncludeFolders "Subject/Mark L/*" -FilePath \\location\markL.pst I receive results but it's not the data that is in the mailbox folder named Mark L... What am I missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated otherwise i will have to tie up my Outlook client to do the export to PSTJessica Cochran

Hi Jessica, You're on the right path, though it might pay to run the following command to validate the full paths of the folders contained within the mailbox and work with the one that contains your results: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity "discovery search mailbox" | ft Identity From here you'd simply copy the relevant path and include it in the New-MailboxExportRequest command. For example, I ran a search on my own mailbox and targeted the results to a custom discovery mailbox named searchStaff (your equivalent of DiscoveryMailbox). Running the above command over it produces the following list of folders: Identity -------- searchStaff\Top of Information Store searchStaff\123456 searchStaff\123456\Lain Robertson-28?03?2012 10:02:54 AM searchStaff\123456\Lain Robertson-28?03?2012 10:02:54 AM\Primary Mailbox searchStaff\123456\Lain Robertson-28?03?2012 10:02:54 AM\Primary Mailbox\Inbox searchStaff\123456\Lain Robertson-28?03?2012 10:02:54 AM\Primary Mailbox\Recoverable Items searchStaff\123456\Lain Robertson-28?03?2012 10:02:54 AM\Primary Mailbox\Recoverable Items\Deletions searchStaff\Calendar searchStaff\Contacts searchStaff\Conversation Action Settings searchStaff\Deleted Items searchStaff\Drafts searchStaff\Inbox searchStaff\Journal searchStaff\Junk E-Mail searchStaff\Notes searchStaff\Outbox searchStaff\Sent Items searchStaff\Tasks searchStaff\Recoverable Items searchStaff\Deletions searchStaff\Purges searchStaff\Versions From here, I can see the folder I'm actually after is searchStaff\123456\Lain Robertson-28?03?2012 10:02:54 AM\Primary Mailbox\Inbox, which I can then include in the following command: New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox searchStaff -IncludeFolders "searchStaff\\123456\\Lain Robertson-28?03?2012 10:02:54 AM\\Primary Mailbox\\Inbox" -FilePath \\location\share\lain.pst Note the escaping of the backslashes in the IncludeFolders parameter. If you don't do this it's treat the path as having special characters in it and won't work. If this produces the same results as before, then the search itself hasn't produced the results you were hoping for, so you'll have to go back and troubleshoot that. Cheers, Lain

Thank you so much for the speedy answer. I am glad to know I was on the right track What if I want to include everything underneath the Lain Robertson folder??Jessica Cochran

Hi Jessica, You'd just chop the \\Primary Mailbox\\Inbox off the end of the -IncludeFolders parameter. So, using my example from above, you'd end up with the following: New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox searchStaff -IncludeFolders "searchStaff\\123456\\Lain Robertson-28?03?2012 10:02:54 AM" -FilePath \\location\share\lain.pst The only thing I'd add to that is you need to make sure the original search captured everything you wanted, as the export function will only be able to see the search results. That might mean you have to go back to the original search and broaden the search critera, but I'm pretty sure you already knew that. If you wanted everything from the user's mailbox, you could just export directly from their mailbox with the same two commands I used in my previous post. Instead of targeting the "discovery search mailbox", you'd simply target the user's mailbox. Again, I know I'm stating the obvious, but I prefer to do that rather and sound silly than not mention it at all :) Cheers, Lain

I am attached to the SearchResults mailbox and I can see information in the folder but i think it's not copying because of private items Even when i try to export to PST from Outlook it still doesn't give me all of the information I can see. Anyway around that? Jessica Cochran

I've had a bit of a search around but I don't have a good response for this, I'm afraid. Personally, I haven't had this issue yet (or perhaps I just haven't noticed), so I'm not sure what other options there are. It sort of sounds like a potential MAPI limitation, but I'm just speculating as I can't remember if the new export requests even still use MAPI. Sorry I'm not much help on this one. I will keep looking because I am interested, but hopefully someone who has actually worked through this issue (or just knows more about it) can get back to you in the meanwhile, as I know this is a time-sensitive issue for you. Cheers, Lain

Its definately interesting i had 6 searches and 1 of the 6 is giving me issues exporting to PST from Outlook even. Jessica Cochran

Call this an uneducated guess, but the mailbox that's giving you grief isn't enabled for archiving, is it? You can check this with the following command: Get-Mailbox -Identity <user> | ft Name,ArchiveDatabase If the database is blank, then it's not enabled. If it has the name of a database in there, then you might wan to try adding the -IsArchive switch to the New-MailboxExportRequest statement and try it again. Cheers, Lain