Export Mailboxes from Given Server or Database to Shared Path

[paramjotsingh]

I am new to programming, actually I am Cisco guy and having zero knowledge for coding. Anyhow I want to accomplish a task through PowerShell script. Following is script working but not as per I want. I following tasks:

1) Script has get all the mailboxes from specified Server or Database.
2) It has to export all the mailboxes of prior month from that date it is run. For e.g. If run the script on Dec. 10' 2015, then it has export all the mailboxes from Nov. 10 to Dec. 9' 2015. Next time if I run this script on Dec. 30, it has to export mailboxes from Nov 30 to Dec. 29' 2015.

But my script takes the mailboxes from whole Exchange database and export it. I used the content filter as well but it always exports whole database, it ignores the "month" filtration. Please advise how can i correct this script. I searched a Google lot but ended up by exporting manual specific date content filter.

[pre]
$Export = Get-Mailbox
$endDate = Get-Date
$startDate = $endDate.AddMonths(-1)
$month = "{02}" -f [int]$startDate.Month

$endDate = $endDate.ToShortDateString()
$startDate = $startDate.ToShortDateString()

Write-Host -NoNewline "Exporting items between $startDate and $endDate..."

$Export|%{$_|New-MailboxExportRequest -ContentFilter {(Received -ge $startDate) -and (Received -lt $endDate)} -FilePath "\\FileServer\EmailBackups\ExportTest\MonthTest\$($_.alias).pst"}

Write-Host "Done."
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[blister911]

paramjotsingh,
Where are you filtering the database?

I think you need to add something like this to the beginning.
Also, you may want to add some error checking, like making sure the selection is an integer and is within the range of valid choices.

$databases = Get-MailboxDatabase
$looper = 0
foreach ($database in $databases)
	{
	 Write-Host "$looper.  " -nonewline
	 Write-Host $database.name
	 $looper ++
	}
Write-Host ""
$db_selection = Read-Host "Enter the number of the database you want to export"
$Export = Get-Mailbox -Database ($databases[$db_selection].name)

## The rest of your code goes below
$endDate = Get-Date
$startDate = $endDate.AddMonths(-1)
$month = "{0:D2}" -f [int]$startDate.Month

$endDate = $endDate.ToShortDateString()
$startDate = $startDate.ToShortDateString()

Write-Host -NoNewline "Exporting items between $startDate and $endDate..."

$Export|%{$_|New-MailboxExportRequest -ContentFilter {(Received -ge $startDate) -and (Received -lt $endDate)} -FilePath "\\FileServer\EmailBackups\ExportTest\MonthTest\$($_.alias).pst"}

Write-Host "Done."

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