How do I see why a Mailbox Export Request failed?

Question

I'm trying to export a bunch of mailboxes to PST files and a few of the requests terminated early in a failure.

A few 5GB+ mailboxes succeeded and a few really small ones failed, I can't see anything common among them...

Performing get-mailboxexportrequest just shows name/mailbox/status and status only shows Queued/Completed/Failed

I have tried various switches and commands but I can't seem to find any more detail than the above.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a command so I can see the failure message in detail?

Solution

You can start by exporting a detail report to a text for more detail Get-MailboxExportRequest -status failed | Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics -IncludeReport | Format-List > c:\report.txt

I hope your report will shed light on details of the failure

Comments

[William Hilsum]

Unfortunately, for some it didn't - rerunning the command worked... However, this did find some other issues for me!