Get-MailboxExportRequest not returning any results

Question

I have created a mailbox export request on my Exchange 2016 environment to export a user's mailbox to a PST.

I am trying to run Get-MailboxExportRequest to see what the status of the export is.

Unfortunately, the command is returning no results. It is not erroring, or issuing any warnings and I am a member of the role granting access to the export commands.

I know the export is running as I can see the file size of the destination PST file changing.

The Exchange setup is two Exchange Servers running two DBs as part of a single DAG with one DB active on either server at a time. Both are running on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter.

I have tried running the command from both Exchange servers and with command line args pointing to each of the two DCs in case that helped (it didn't). (-DomainController ).

I have tried with the -Status parameter with no luck and I have tried with and without specifying a mailbox.

Can anyone suggest to me what I need to do in order to get it to show me the status of my export(s)?

Answer 1

Is your account in a role group that has the Mailbox Import Export role? If you were able to use the New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet with this account, Get-MailboxExportRequest should also work.

This cmdlet is available only in the Mailbox Import Export role, and by default, that role isn't assigned to a role group. To use this cmdlet, you need to add the Mailbox Import Export role to a role group (for example, to the Organization Management role group).

Answer 2

I have the same problem. In my case, the command started showing results when user was assigned in specific Exchange security groups:

Discovery Management 
Organization Management
Server Management

Maybe not all this groups requred.