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Today, I was trying to determine how much it would cost to host a virutal server online. While all of the providers had pricing information posted, there are so many choices that it was nearly impossible to get a solid price.

On the Amazon site, I found a cost calculator that was very helpful. From a drop-down list, I just had to select the required services and Amazon presented me with the estimated up-front and monthly cost.

Enable “Mailbox Import Export” role

1. Connect to Office 365 Portal
2. Select Admin -> Exchange
3. Click on Permissions
4. Double-click on Organization Management
5. Under Roles, click on the plus sign (+)
6. Add the Mailbox Import/Export role
7. Ensure your account is a member of the Organization Management
8. Go to Start>PowerShell right-click on it and run as Administrator
9. Enter the following commands to connect PowerShell to Exchange Online
   1. Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
   2. $UserCredential = Get-Credential
   3. $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
   4. Import-PSSession $Session
   5. Search-mailbox -identity USER@EXAMPLE.COM – -DeleteContent -force

 

In previous versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, the best (and sometimes the only) way to export a user’s mailbox was opening Outlook and exporting the mailbox to a .PST file.

With recent versions of Exchange (Exchange Server 2010 SP2, 2013, and 2016), Exchange Management Shell gives us the power to export mailboxes using the command line.

1. Log into the Exchange server
2. Right-click Exchange Management Shell and click Run as Administrator
3. Enter the command New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Role “Mailbox Import Export” –User Administrator
Granting Export Rights
4. Close the PowerShell window and run as Administrator
5. Run the command New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox MAILBOXNAME -FilePath \\SERVER\SHARE\MAILBOXNAME.pst
ExportRequest documentation

Note I have two pieces of text MAILBOX_NAME and \\SERVER\SHARE need to be replaced with an actual mailbox name and server share path.

To run the maintenance scripts for macOS, run this Terminal command: 

    sudo periodic daily weekly monthly

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