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Outlook PST Export Question
charlie4872 the bad news is no, Outlook will not be able to split the .PST, it just exports as a single .PST
You could look to use a eDiscovery and export a date range to then get the pst size down.
I know third party tools also can do this though have not tried these my self so cant recommend one
Thanks for the response PDostiyar What I am looking to do is Export a .PST and am wondering if it will create separate .PST files when exporting a large mailbox from Outlook. I know when doing the "New-MailboxExportRequest" powershell command in Exchange online it creates 10GB .PST files until the whole mailbox is exported. I just dont know if Outlook does the same thing.
charlie4872 the bad news is no, Outlook will not be able to split the .PST, it just exports as a single .PST
You could look to use a eDiscovery and export a date range to then get the pst size down.
I know third party tools also can do this though have not tried these my self so cant recommend one
Thanks for the reply Willjmoo So Outlook would just export on large 100GB .PST file that would probably be unusable correct? My thinking is if I were to do this in Outlook I would just select individual folders If needed and that would be one workaround to get smaller .PST files. Otherwise I agree the best way to do this would be to have the Exchange admin team do the export. Just wanted to confirm.
Thanks.
no problemscharlie4872
a 100GB .PST would not be nice to work with, you can like you say export smaller chunks but this will take a long time, if the Admin can do it via an ediscovery that would be best
good luck