EdbMails forensically recover the Exchange database EDB file. With many inbuilt functionalities, which assists administrators to accomplish complex task such as recovering and  exporting mailbox with a few commands.

To execute such commands, one must be expert and have technical knowledge and requires some appropriate permissions. You have to recover the EDB file using PowerShell commands. Use of such command often leads to risk factors like data loss. This is one of the major reason due to which majority of the companies prioritize the EdbMails converter for EDB to export Exchange Mailboxes to Outlook format. This software Convert EDB to outlook format easily and efficiently.

Use of power shell command:

The PowerShell command can be available on both on-premise and cloud Exchange perhaps some parameters are different for both. This PowerShell command is used to export mailbox to PST in exchange server. This PowerShell commands also allows you to search particular mailboxes and accomplish following task.

§  It allows you to carry out the single item recovery in order to recover items from a users Recoverable Items folder

§   It will also, clean up the Recoverable Items folder for a mailbox when it has reached the certain level.

This cmdlet would be a feasible way to export a specific user mailbox from EDB file into another format like PST.

How to Use power shell commands:

Step 1: First you have to Open elevated command prompt. Run eseutil /mh MDB01.edb to check status of database if it was dirty shutdown.

Step 2:  In order to repair Exchange database run eseutil /r . Execute the  cmdlet as shown below:

eseutil /r E02 /l E:\EXDB12\Exchange Server\MDB01\Logs /d E:\EXDB12\Exchange Server\MDB01\File
( where E02 is the file name of check file)

Step 3: Now you have to create RecoveryDB using following command:
New-MailboxDatabase -Server mail01 -Name RecoveryDB01 -Recovery -EdbFilePath E:\EXDB12\Exchange Server\MDB01\File\MDB01 .edb -LogFolderPath E:\EXDB12\Exchange Server\MDB01\Logs

Step 4: Once RecoveryDB is created, then you have to mount it. Execute the below command.
Mount-Database RecoveryDB01

Step 5: In order to get a list of mailboxes, execute the command as shown below:
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database RecoveryDB01 | ft auto

Step 6: In order to Restore mailbox to an existing user,Execute  New-MailboxRestoreRequest New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase RecoveryDB01 -SourceStoreMailbox Michal, Bates -TargetMailbox newuser AllowLegacyDNMismatch
      Where Michal, Bates is a mailbox which need to be restored from the old database and newuser is a  new mailbox you just created.

Step 7: In order to check the status of a restore request, execute the following command :
Get-MailboxRestoreRequest

Step 8: , In order to remove restore request after status get completes,  run following cmdlet:
Get-MailboxRestoreRequest -Status Completed | Remove-MailboxRestoreRequest

Step 9: Now You can convert EDB to PST PowerShell using  following New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet .
New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox michalbates -FilePath //fileshare01/PST/michalbates.pst

Step 10: In order to check the status of export request, execute the command:
Get-Mailboxexportrequest

Step 11: Remove export request, Once the status of export request gets completed using the commands as shown as below
Get-Mailboxexportrequest -status completed | Remove-Mailboxexportrequest

Step 12: Delete data from mailbox it was imported to
Disable-Mailbox Michal.Bates@domain.com

Step 13: In order to delete Recovery database , execute the following cmdlet:
Remove-MailboxDatabase -Identity RecoveryDB1
Then manually delete the file from its location (database and log).

Limitation of using this command

Even though usage of this commands to export Mailbox to PST looks fairly simple, the entire process encounters with few of limitations::

§  To execute this commands it requires you to assign appropriate permissions .

§  Improper usage of the cmdlet perhaps leads to risk factors such as unexpected data loss

§  To execute this command, one must be expert in technical knowledge, as this command is a bit too technical for users.

§  It consumes more time while converting from EDB to PST.

Therefore, in order to overcome these limitations, Exchange experts are suggested to use a more full-proof and efficient technique to export EDB content to PST format. Also, this technique involves in use of reliable and competent EDB to PST converter to convert mailbox contents saved within EDB file into Outlook PST format.

The safest alternative to Export Mailbox to PST:

EdbMails Converter for EDB is the easiest method to perform safe and accurate EDB file export to PST format. Also, the tool efficiently converts online as well as offline EDB files into Outlook PST files without obstructing mailbox format or structure. It facilitates some of the advanced features:

§  It is capable for accomplishing the extraction of single or multiple mailboxes as per need

§  During migration process, Smooth recovery of accidentally deleted mailboxes

§  It has utility to export offline EDB file to live Exchange Server/Office 365.

§  It provides several Options to save converted emails in a variety of formats like EML, MSG, & HTML

In addition to these appropriate features, the software comes packed with an interactive and inbuilt GUI, that makes its operation extremely simple and fast. Also, its free demo version is available. You can export up to 30 mail item and allows users to scan and preview converted mailboxes before saving.

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