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William Hilsum
Asked: 2016-01-08 05:43:51 +0800 CST

How do I see why a Mailbox Export Request failed?

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I'm trying to export a bunch of mailboxes to PST files and a few of the requests terminated early in a failure.

A few 5GB+ mailboxes succeeded and a few really small ones failed, I can't see anything common among them...

Performing get-mailboxexportrequest just shows name/mailbox/status and status only shows Queued/Completed/Failed

I have tried various switches and commands but I can't seem to find any more detail than the above.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a command so I can see the failure message in detail?

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  1. Best Answer

    You can start by exporting a detail report to a text for more detail Get-MailboxExportRequest -status failed | Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics -IncludeReport | Format-List > c:\report.txt

    I hope your report will shed light on details of the failure

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  2. I've just ran into a continual problem where some mailboxes were failing and a couple of online resources have suggested that an anti-virus may be at fault so, as a temporary measure, try adding your shared location to the anti-virus exclusion list so that it ignores the files in the location and won't scan/change ownership of them mid-export.

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