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    I was accustomed to using New-MailboxExportRequest, but just learned how to use Restore-Mailbox.

    Is there one command that you prefer to use instead of the other?  Just curious.

    Thanks,
    Robert

    Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:52 AM

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    Those are 2 different functions.

    New-MailboxExportRequest exports the mbx to a pst

    Restore-Mailbox is used to recover a mailbox and since 2010 Sp1 has been replaced by

    New-MailboxRestoreRequest

    Since you should be at 2010 SP2 and above ( Sp1 is no longer supported), you should be using New-MailboxRestoreRequest only and not the deprecated restore-mailbox command.

     

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    Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:24 AM

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    Those are 2 different functions.

    New-MailboxExportRequest exports the mbx to a pst

    Restore-Mailbox is used to recover a mailbox and since 2010 Sp1 has been replaced by

    New-MailboxRestoreRequest

    Since you should be at 2010 SP2 and above ( Sp1 is no longer supported), you should be using New-MailboxRestoreRequest only and not the deprecated restore-mailbox command.

     

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    Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:24 AM
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    Oops.. Sorry, that's what I meant.. New-MailboxRestoreRequest vs. Restore-Mailbox Reason I asked is because i ran into an issue today, try to run the new-mailboxexportrequest command, because the specific mailbox had junk email rules that we're conflicting with the recovery. I instead ran the restore-mailbox and that seemed to work well in its place. Anyhow, thanks for your feedback. Nice to learn that the restore-mailbox is the older, more deprecated version.
    Wednesday, January 29, 2014 7:18 AM
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    Hi,

    I agree with Andy. We use the New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet to export contents of a primary mailbox or archive to a .pst file. When the request encounters corruption in the mailbox, we can add the BadItemLimit parameter to specify the number of bad items to skip.

    And the Restore-Mailbox cmdlet is used to extract mailbox content from a restored database. The Restore-Mailbox cmdlet can only use disconnected mailboxes on a server as a source of data, and the cmdlet can only use connected mailboxes as a target for data.

    If you want to learn more about the Restore-Mailbox cmdlet, you can refer to Restore-Mailbox.

    Best regards,
    Belinda

    Belinda Ma
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    Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:17 AM
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