Need Exchange 2007 do export mailboxes to .pst (can't use 3rd party bu sol'ns or client wrkstations)

TekTips5551212 · Mar 7, 2014

Exchange noob.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 running on Windows SBS 2008 (Windows Server Standard FE). All email clients are Office/Outlook 2010 running on Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Exchange hosts only 3 mailboxes.

I want to to schedule an export of each mailbox to a .pst file every evening.
The exports must save to an external usb drive attached to the server.
I want the exports done at midnight.
I can't do the exports from the client workstations. (All clients are laptops and the users take them home.)
I need the server to to a scheduled .pst export to the usb drive.
How do I do this?

*Note - I cannot spend money on a 3rd party backup solution like BackupExec or Symantec SSR. I'm hoping the server/Exchange has some type of native utility to do this.

Can you please advise.

ShackDaddy · Mar 11, 2014

Sorry, what you want is impossible. It was possible in Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2010, but not Exchange 2007.

I had a client once who had a virtual SBS 2008 server hosted in a datacenter and he needed to do exports, so we had to virtualize a Win7 workstation just to do the exports from. Your only option is going to be finding a 3rd-party product to do it, since the functionality is just not there natively.

Dave Shackelford
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Need Exchange 2007 do export mailboxes to .pst (can't use 3rd party bu sol'ns or client wrkstations)

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