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Exchange Backups (Part 1)

The MS Exchange Plugin allows users to backup mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange to a remote machine. Part II of this series talk about restoring mailboxes.

Assumptions

This plugin has following requirements:

MS Exchange 2010 (SP3) or newer
MS Exchange management shell is installed
The Syncrify client must be running on the same machine where MS Exchange is running
There must be enough free disk space on this machine to hold PST files.

Additionally, following steps are required before configuring Syncrify.

Step 1

Create a share on the server and grant Exchange Trusted Subsystem read/write permission. In this example, we are using a share called ExchangePST that is referring to C:\ExchangePST folder. See the image below.

This folder is used to store exported PST files from Exchange server.

Step 2

Next, you will need to grant a user, or group, the Mailbox Import Export role. Backups will run using this user's account. Follow the steps below to accomplish this task:

Open Exchange Management Shell on the machine
Type the following command:
New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role "Mailbox Import Export" -User YourActiveDirectoryDomain\Administrator
Change the machine and user/group name appropriately in the above command.
Close Exchange Managment Shell by typing the Exit command.

Step 3

Change the user account that will run backups using the following steps:

Open Services from Control Panel
Locate a service called Backup Monitoring Service, double click it to invoke the properties window.
Click the Log On tab and switch the account to Administrator. See image below:

Step 4

Now you are ready to configure Syncrify Client.

Start the Syncrify client
Select the Profile name node on the left and click the right mouse button. Then, select MS Exchange from plugin.
This opens up the following window:
The following table contain field definitions for this window:

Shared Folder Name: Shared folder you created in Step 1

Shared Folder Path: Absolute path of this shared folder

Exchange Path: Location where MS Exchange is installed.
Once the plugin is configured, run backup to confirm it is working

Shared Folder Name:	Shared folder you created in Step 1
Shared Folder Path:	Absolute path of this shared folder
Exchange Path:	Location where MS Exchange is installed.

Continue reading Part II, which talks about restoring Exchange mailboxes from PST files.