Hi all,

Today I got an assignment to recover a disconnected users mailbox emails received.

So here goes.

Step 1:

Allow permissions to user-account you are using.

New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Role "Mailbox Import Export" –User whateveryouareusing

Step 2:


Connect-Mailbox –Identity disconnecteduser –Database mailboxdatabasename –user recovery.user

Step 3:

-gt in the specific date.


New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox recovery.user -ContentFilter "Received -gt '02/07/2015'" -FilePath "server01exportwhatever.pst" 

And Technet article on Export Request Content filtering https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff601762(v=exchg.150).aspx

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