Exchange Management Shell crashes exporting mailbox on Windows 7

Scenario

  • Exchange Server 2007
  • Windows 7 client with Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2007 management tools installed
  • Trying to export user’s mailbox with Export-Mailbox cmdlet

Problem

After running Export-Mailbox –Identity user.name -PSTFolderPath c:\archive.pst Exchange Management Shell crashes with error below:

Windows PowerShell has stopped working

Description:
Stopped working
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
Application Name:    powershell.exe
Application Version:    6.1.7600.16385
Application Timestamp:    4a5bc414
Fault Module Name:    migbase.dll
Fault Module Version:    8.1.399.0
Fault Module Timestamp:    4a5453e4
Exception Code:    c0000005
Exception Offset:    00076efd
OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID:    2057

Resolution

Problem was caused by insufficient permissions Exchange Management Shell had on the client machine. To resolve simply run Exchange Management Shell with elevated privileges:

Run Exchange Management Shell as Administrator


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