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One can access the mailboxes on any device at any time with Microsoft's Office 365. This is due to the advanced and overwhelming features that distinguish it from other applications at the business level. This article focuses more on u201chow to export Office 365 mailbox to PST formatu201d as there is no backup option for O365.
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What is the process to export Office 365 Mailbox to PST and why it isnecessary? • One can access the mailboxes on any device at any time with Microsoft'sOffice • This is due to the advanced and overwhelming features that distinguish it from other applications at the business level. This article focuses more on “how to export Office 365 mailbox to PST format” as there is no backup optionfor • O365. • Let's take an example by asituation- • Situations such as having the backup of Office 365 mailboxes, although office 365 does not provide a hard backup option for user mailbox information. The office guarantees the protection of user mailbox data. Many companies choose to keep their valuable data back as a hard copy tothemselves. • After discussing the situation about Office 365 backup problem, move further to know the necessity to export Office 365 email toPST. • Why it is necessary to export Office 365 mailbox toPST? • There are a lot of reasons behind this migration process as givenbelow: • Not Based only on Microsoft to control yourdata. • An Office 365 admin account has been hacked by an anonymous person or group. • A desperate situation where you need data for legal / auditpurposes. • Data loss due to accidental deletion of O365 accountitems. • Want to keep mails & documents for a longer period oftime. • Business account data that Cloud Ransomware attack causes to be encrypted.
Now, it's time to understand how exporting Office 365 mailboxes to PST files can be done. Different Methods to export Office 365 email toPST- Method 1: UsingeDiscovery Sign-in to Office 365 first with correct admincredentials. Visit the Admin center>Exchange. Then go to Permissions > admin roles in the Exchange Admincenter >DiscoveryManagement. Within Discovery Management add Mailbox Import Export role, press + icon to add yourself and click onSave. Visit the admin center>Compliance Management> in-place eDiscovery andhold. Hit on + icon to make a new search query by providing the name and description of the search query and press Next to proceed.
Under Mailboxes go for options based on requirements and then hitNext. Within the Search query, provide details about the search for items and hit Next. In the In-Place Hold settings, do in-place hold of Searchitems. Go to Compliance management, click it and hit on the arrow button to export the Office 365 emails to Outlook PST. Then to migrate the PST, a PST Export Tool will be downloadednext. To save the exported PST file, search for the path in eDiscovery PST Export Tool. Hit on start to begin theprocess, Enter the Office 365 account details to complete the process. Once process is completed, close it. By adding it to an existing Outlook profile in MS Outlook, you can easily access the PSTfile. For more information visit this site- Methods to Find Missing Old Emails in Office 365Webmail Method 2: Using In-place eDiscovery andHold Sign-in to Office 365 first with correct admincredentials. Visit the Admin center>Exchange. Then go to Permissions > admin roles in the Exchange Admincenter >DiscoveryManagement. Within Discovery Management add Mailbox Import Export role, press + icon to add yourself and click onSave.
5. Visit the admin center>Compliance Management> in-place eDiscovery andhold. Next, select the ‘Don’t Search Any Mailboxes’ option and press ‘Next’. OR Select another option if you want to export particularemails. A number of filtering options appear next. Press the ‘Down Arrow’ button to export the search results to a PST. To specify the path, a new dialog box
appears next for saving the PST file and start the process ofexport. 8. You can then access the downloaded results by clicking in the Content Search dialog box on the download export results. This produces an export key that can be copied toClipboard. 9. Finally, paste the copied export key to the utility eDiscovery PST export and give the PST files a saving path. Press the start. Export to PST file format from Office 365 will be successfully exported and you can later export it to Outlook. But there are specific problems with the eDiscovery functionality.
Limitations of ManualApproach: • A most difficulttask. • A long, tediousoperation. • Complexity ishigh. • Requires sufficient technicalknowledge. • Lowspeed. • More timerequires. • You can use the utility Office 365 Backup and Restore to overcome the limitations of manual methods. It migrates Office 365 mailbox directly to export from Office 365 to PST without any loss of data. To run this software there is no need to have technicalknowledge. • FinalThoughts • We presented all possible solutions in this blog on "How to export Office 365 Mailbox to PST”. Hopefully, you will understandthem.