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Why PowerShell Throttles Microsoft 365 Mailbox Exports & How Standalone MAPI Engines Fix It

Every SysAdmin and DevOps engineer who has ever tried to export a 50GB+ Microsoft 365 (Office 365) mailbox via PowerShell has hit the exact same brick wall:


powershell
New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox "executive@enterprise.com" -FilePath "\\storage\pst\backup.pst"
# Status: Queued... Processing... StalledDueToTarget_DiskLatency (ETA: 48 Hours)
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