Exchange 2007 Powershell Scheduling Export to PST Script

Requirements

Creating a User to Export With

Add-ADPermission -Identity "Mailbox Database" -User "username" -ExtendedRights Receive-As

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The Batch File

The batch file portion of this is the object that's scheduled to run at the time you choose. This batch file does nothing but call a Powershell command script (these can not be scheduled directly so the .bat file is required).

Batch File Creation

Powershell -command "& { \\server\share\scripts\exch\pstexport.ps1 }"

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The PS1 File

A PS1 file is a standard Powershell script file, like a shell script or vb script. This standard Powershell script will need to load the Exchange CmdLets included in the Exchange Management Shell. Once the CmdLets are loaded it will create a log file with the date and an extension.

PS1 File Creation

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin

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#Log File Name Variables
                      $filedate=get-date -f "yy-MM-dd"
                      $fileext="_exchbak.txt"

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#Exchange Shell Command to Export Mailboxes to PST
                      Get-Mailbox -OrganizationalUnit "Company Users" | Export-Mailbox -PSTFolderPath \\server\archive\pst -Confirm:$false > \\server\share\scripts\exch\logs\$filedate$fileext
                      exit

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Closing

What you should have now is a share at \\server\share\scripts\exch that contains 2 files and 1 folder. The pstexport.bat, pstexport.ps1 and a logs directory. All you need to do is set the schedule to run your .bat file at whatever time you choose.

*NOTES

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
                      
                      [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\PST]
                      "WarnLargeFileSize"=dword:00011400
                      "MaxLargeFileSize"=dword:00011800

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