Monday, March 17, 2008

Getting Export-Mailbox Cmdlet to work

After installing Exchange 2007 SP1 Management Tools on Windows 2003 SP2 x86 and Outlook 2007 with SP1, the export-mailbox cmdlet was returning this error:

Export-Mailbox : Error was found for "Name" (
) because: Error occurred in the step: Approving object. An unknown error has occurred., error code: -2147221233

Running FixMapi.exe from the command prompt easily fixes the problem.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

After looking all over and getting told this was a premission problem by everyone, well this fixed my issue in 2 seconds!!!!

hooberhobber said...

I've got permissions over the mailbox and my account is a full exchange admin. What other permissions are you referring to?!

hooberhobber said...

I've got permissions over the mailbox and my account is a full exchange admin. What other permissions are you referring to?!

Anonymous said...

Ohmygooood ! thanks. This f*****g exchange makes me feel that IT is a hell ! but people like you that put real solutions makes me like ... getting a new deep deep breath... and start over again.

Anonymous said...

Thank you so very much for this. I have been banging my head against this problem for the better part of 3 months. I've been working around it with Exmerge and using Outlook.

Anonymous said...

Great!!!! This works, after a day of setting and changing permissions this was the only thing that works.