Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2
Topic Last Modified: 2011-03-19
You can suspend a restore request any time after the request was
created but before the request reaches the status of
Completed. You can resume the restore request using
the Resume-MailboxRestoreRequest
cmdlet.
Looking for other management tasks related to restore requests or disconnected mailboxes? Check out Managing Disconnected Mailboxes.
Use the Shell to suspend a restore request
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Disconnected mailboxes" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.
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This example suspends the restore request MailboxRestore1 for Ayla's mailbox.
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Suspend-MailboxRestoreRequest -Identity Ayla\MailboxRestore1 |
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This example suspends all restore requests in progress
by first retrieving all requests that have a status of
InProgress, and then pipelining output to the
Suspend-MailboxRestoreRequest cmdlet and including the
suspend comment "Resume after 10:00 PM."
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Get-MailboxRestoreRequest -Status InProgress | Suspend-MailboxRestoreRequest -SuspendComment "Resume after 10 PM" |
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For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Suspend-MailboxRestoreRequest and Get-MailboxRestoreRequest.
Other Tasks
After you suspend a restore request, you may also want to resume the request. For details, see Resume a Restore Request.