Extract Exchange Servet Items, Selecting destination for saving items
When choosing to extract Mailboxes Content you can browse mailboxes to extract specific content - folders and items - by going through the following steps:
On the first step you have to select the location and a VM with Exchange Server backups. On the left you can see the list of backup locations. When choosing a location it is then scanned for Exchange VM backups which you see in the middle section. Select the VM you need to extract mailboxes & mailboxes contents from. On the right you can see the summary information. Click Next.
Select Mailboxes Content on the second step.
On the third step select the recovery point on the left. By default, the latest recovery point is selected.
On the fourth step click Browse E-mails to select the specific mailbox content you want to extract. Browsing the mailbox contents requires starting a temporary virtual machine directly from backup's selected recovery point which might take a few minutes. You could see the mounting operation progress. Upon successful completion you can select the mailbox(es) contents. In case mounting failed, you might see the log and cancel the task.
Note that this temporary VM stays mounted for 10 minutes. If you leave the Extract Exchange Server Items wizard and then start it back again, you'll be opt to Continue browsing the previously selected recovery point.
The selection of the mailbox(es) contents on the fourth step is as follows. The list of the available mailbox(es) is on the left side. Choose the mailbox, and you will see all its contents as folders and items. Select all the items you would like to extract. You can repeat the items selection with other mailboxes. When you're done, click Next.
On the final step click Browse to select the destination folder where to save the selected items, and click Finish to proceed with the extraction. You will see the Exchange items extract information pop-up.
Extract Exchange Servet Items, Selecting destination for saving items
The selected Mailboxes & Mailboxes Contents are saved to the specified destination as the Acronis Backup for VMware self-extractible (.exe) archive. You can run this file on any machine which has Microsoft Outlook (2003+) installed in order to extract the e-mails and other items in .pst format.
When unpacking the data from the archive you can also select the contents to be extracted and indicate the folder where to exctract the data to. Click Extract to see the progress. The data will be extracted into a .pst file which can be opened by Microsoft Outlook (File -> Open). Note, that the machine where you run the extracting process should have Microsoft Outlook installed (since MAPI is required).