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Delete emails from users Inboxes

Hi

This morning, an email went out to a whole bunch of people that shouldn't have! HR and management have now asked us if there's a way to remove the message from users' mailboxes before Monday morning. There are hundreds of mailboxes, so going into each one is not an option...any idea? We have the sender, recipient, and subject of this offending message.

Running Exchange 2007 SP2.

Camy

You should be able to do this with the Export-Mailbox cmdlet.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24278630/Remove-a-single-email-from-all-Exchange-2007-mailboxes.html
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrgeneral/thread/c9025ff3-cf29-48ca-b17d-f98bb64c6bcf/

digitalco

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Thanks...so reading around I would use this command below:

Get-Mailbox -Database DB1 | Export-Mailbox -TargetMailbox ExportMailbox -TargetFolder VirusData -SubjectKeywords "Virus message" -DeleteContentDo you know how I would use this command if I had the users in a text/CSV file?

Also, does this work on one mailbox at a time, or can do multiple?

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ckeshav

ExMerge is a tool from Exchange 2003 but works on 2007 also

http://www.petri.co.il/delete_messages_from_mailboxes_by_using_exmerge.htm

digitalco

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How about:

Get-Content c:\users.txt | Get-Mailbox | Export-Mailbox -SubjectKeywords "Virus message" -DeleteContent

digitalco

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?? Anyone - and is there a way I can see a log of how we're progressing?

Camy

What you wrote there looks about right - did you test and find that it didnt work?

More information / confirmation of method - http://msexchangeguru.com/2011/05/06/delete-email/