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Export-Message

Exchange Online ExchangeOnlineManagement Export-*

Copy a message from a queue on a Mailbox server or an Edge Transport server to a specified file path in your organization.

Quick start script

# Export-Message — quick start (serv365.ai)
# 1. Connect (app-only shown; interactive: omit the certificate parameters)
Connect-ExchangeOnline -CertificateThumbprint $thumb -AppId $appId -Organization $org

# 2. Run and inspect
Export-Message -Identity <MessageIdentity> | Format-List

# 3. Export for evidence / drift tracking
Export-Message | Export-Clixml .\Message-$(Get-Date -Format yyyyMMdd).xml

Syntax

Export-Message [-Identity] <MessageIdentity>
 [-Confirm]
 [-WhatIf]
 [<CommonParameters>]

Parameters (3)

Parameter	Type	Required	What it controls
-Identity	MessageIdentity	yes	The Identity parameter specifies the message. Valid input for this parameter uses the syntax Server\\Queue\\MessageInteger or Queue\\MessageInteger or MessageInteger, for example, Mailbox01\\contoso.com\\5 or 10. For...
-Confirm	SwitchParameter		The Confirm switch specifies whether to show or hide the confirmation prompt. How this switch affects the cmdlet depends on whether the cmdlet requires confirmation before proceeding.
-WhatIf	SwitchParameter		The WhatIf switch shows what the command does without making any changes. You don't need to specify a value with this switch.

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