– Select Content Search in the menu under Solutions – Click + New Search

Open the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center.

Their are browser extensions available for Chrome and Firefox that solve this issue and allows you to download and use the eDiscovery Export Tool Note Only the browser Edge is supported to download the eDiscovery Export Tool. Then we can export the result to a PST file with the eDiscovery Export Tool. To export a mailbox out of Office 365 we first need to create a Content Search that will collect all the mail of the specified user. To apply the new permissions it’s best to log out, close the tab and log back in again. We have now the proper permissions to start a Content Search and export an Office 365 mailbox to pst. Lookup your own account and add it to the list.Click on Choose eDisovery Administrator or Edit.Make sure that the Export Role is listed in the Assigned Roles (otherwise add it).

In the menu, click on Compliance to open the Compliance Admin Center.

You will need to be a global administrator to change permissions. To use the Content Search you will need to have the eDiscovery Manager role in the Microsoft 365 Compliance center.Ī global administrator doesn’t have this role by default, so first, we are going to give your account the proper permissions. We are going to use the Content Search and eDiscovery Export Tool to export an Office 365 mailbox to PST. Requirements to Export Mailbox to PST in Office 365 In this article, I am going to explain how you can export an Office 365 mailbox to pst. Users can export their own mailbox through the Outlook client, but also as an admin we can easily export a complete mailbox through the Office 365 Admin Center. For example when a user leaves the organization, legal purposes, or when you want to migrate a mailbox to another mail service. In some use-cases, you might want to export Office 365 mailboxes to a PST file.

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