Are you running the export-mailbox cmdlet on a server or on a workstation with the tools installed?
Has the computer where the export-mailbox is being run patched to current versions? (That is, sp1 UR4) A lot of work was done on the tools in ur4... Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Export-Mailbox and Dumpster Dunno, but I can see it is exporting Dumpster Items by the message count per folder? Is that a known issue, I thought it *didn't* do that? jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Export-Mailbox and Dumpster Huh. That surprises me. If you compact the PST does it drop down to ~200M? Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Export-Mailbox and Dumpster File -> Import & Export -> Export to a file -> pst -> choose the mailbox, include all subfolders. That's ~200M, where the cmdlet gives me 1600M? Thanks! jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Export-Mailbox and Dumpster Define for me what "manual export of all folders from OL to a pst" means. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Export-Mailbox and Dumpster Reading technet, I see: "If you export data to a .pst file by using the PSTFolderPath parameter, the Export-Mailbox cmdlet does not export messages from the dumpster." So piping a Get-Mailbox with some filtering into this: Export-Mailbox -PSTFolderPath:"D:\Path" -MaxThreads:1 -Confirm:$false should give the same size file that a manual export of all folders from OL to a pst does? But the cmdlet gives me 1.6 gig where OL gives me 200 meg for one box? How can I replicate the same behavior and not export anything else other than the current mailbox contents? Thanks, jlc ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~