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Kikopu
Kikopu

Reputation: 155

PST : How not to put a MailboxRequest in a queue

I need to export some PST. Problem is, when I use my foreach-object to export every PST one by one, they are all put in queue. But an other program is supposed to work using the PST at the same time.

dir | foreach-object {
$var = $_
New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox $var -Filepath "\\******\******tmp\pst\$var.pst"
}

I dont want my requests to be queued, I want them to be completed before starting an other one. For example, if the first request extracts pst1, i want it to be fully extracted before putting pst2in queue. Is there a way to do this ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 366

Answers (2)

Avshalom
Avshalom

Reputation: 8889

You can't change the Queue Behavior but you can force the exchage server to process only 1 pst each time

to achieve this, you need to edit the MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config file located at:

<Exchange Installation Path>\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Bin 

MaxActiveMovesPerSourceMDB - Default is 5 - Change it to 1
MaxActiveMovesPerTargetMDB - Default is 2 - Change it to 1

You might also need to change those setting as well:

MaxActiveMovesPerTargetServer
MaxActiveMovesPerSourceServer

of course if you want just to pause the foreach loop you can use the while statement (like Oggew suggested) to make sure the previous job completed before processing the next export

Upvotes: 1

Oggew
Oggew

Reputation: 366

You could add something like this after you pass the New-MailboxExportRequest (inside the foreach-loop). If the export status equals "Queued" or "inprogress" the script will sleep for 15s and then check again. If the value changes status to completed it will pass in the next New-MailboxExportRequest.

while ((Get-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox $var | Where {$_.Status -eq "Queued" -or $_.Status -eq "InProgress"}))
{
    sleep 15
}

Upvotes: 0

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