

We can now select what and how we want to export our mailbox. Click on the Content Search that we have just created 2. (Click Refresh occasionally to update the status)ġ.

Wait for the status to change to Completed in the Content Search scene. Click Done to close the New Search screenĭepending on the mailbox size it can take a couple of minutes to complete the content search. Review your Content Search and click Submit to start it. We want to export the complete mailbox, so we can leave the conditions empty. Select or search for the correct user and click on Done And click on Next to continue to the Conditions. The next step is to select the mailbox that we want to export. To export a mailbox, turn Exchange Mailboxes on and click on Choose users, groups, or Teams This helps you later with identifying the correct content search. Give your content search a recognizable name and description and click Next. – Select Content Search in the menu under Solutions – Click + New Search

In the menu, click on Compliance to open the Compliance Admin Center.Log in at the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.You will need to be a global administrator to change permissions. To use the Content Search you will need to have the eDiscovery Manager role in the Microsoft 365 Compliance center.Ī global administrator doesn’t have this role by default, so first, we are going to give your account the proper permissions. We are going to use the Content Search and eDiscovery Export Tool to export an Office 365 mailbox to PST. Requirements to Export Mailbox to PST in Office 365 In this article, I am going to explain how you can export an Office 365 mailbox to pst. Users can export their own mailbox through the Outlook client, but also as an admin we can easily export a complete mailbox through the Office 365 Admin Center. For example when a user leaves the organization, legal purposes, or when you want to migrate a mailbox to another mail service. In some use-cases, you might want to export Office 365 mailboxes to a PST file.
