Working with mail backups can be a pain. Especially when you need to do some kind of bulk operations like scan backups for particular mailboxes and find all emails with certain keywords and then export then to a PST or add them to a public folder.
Quest has recently PowerShell-enabled its Exchange/Notes/PST backup/recovery product – and we got a lot of great functionality available for your scripts/command line.
Here are a few examples:
- Here’s how you can attach a standard Exchange backup and retrieve its messages as .msg files:
Attach-RMEExchangeDB -EdbPath "C:\Data\Edb\EdbSearchTest\EdbSearchTest.edb" | Get-RMEMessage | Export-RMEMessage -ExportPath "C:\Data\Exported\Msg" -Type Msg
- Or look for particular keywords in Lotus Notes data:
Attach-RMELotusDB "C:\Data\Nsf" | Get-RMEMessage -SearchIn Subject, Body -Text "test" | Export-RMEMessage -ExportPath "C:\Data\Exported\Eml" -Type Eml
- Or restore a folder to PST:
Attach-RMEExchangeDB "C:\Data\Edb\EdbSearchTest\EdbSearchTest.edb" | Get-RMEFolder "John Doe\Inbox" | Restore-RMEFolder -TargetPath "C:\Data\Restored\Pst"
Obviously you can restore to live mailboxes and public folders, work with attachments, and so on, and so forth.
Here’s full list of the cmdlets – each of the pages has examples and details on parameters, etc.:
Note that unlike AD cmdlets these are actually a part of commercial product so there is cost involved. You can get a trial license from the product page. If you are a Microsoft MVP you can also get a free NFR license by applying here.
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