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try this:<br />
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get-mailbox &lt;name&gt; -archive | search-mailbox -searchdumpsteronly -deletecontent
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try this:

get-mailbox <name> -archive | search-mailbox -searchdumpsteronly -deletecontent

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Does the mailbox have single item recovery enabled? <br />
Get-mailbox smtp | fl *item* <br />
&nbsp;If yes please note your need to disable &nbsp;this first.<br />
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Set-mailbox smtp -singleitemrecoveryenabled<wbr /> $false<br />
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For more details see the following url<br />
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<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298173(v=exchg.141).aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298173(v=exchg.141).aspx</a>
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Does the mailbox have single item recovery enabled?
Get-mailbox smtp | fl *item*
 If yes please note your need to disable  this first.

Set-mailbox smtp -singleitemrecoveryenabled $false

For more details see the following url

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298173(v=exchg.141).aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298173(v=exchg.141).aspx]

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The command :<br />
get-mailbox &lt;name&gt; -archive | search-mailbox -searchdumpsteronly -deletecontent <br />
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this worked but also deleted totaldelteditems form both regular mailbox and archive.. I just need it to remove from archive?
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The command :
get-mailbox <name> -archive | search-mailbox -searchdumpsteronly -deletecontent

this worked but also deleted totaldelteditems form both regular mailbox and archive.. I just need it to remove from archive?

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this was the only solution that removed dumpster content from archive Mailbox
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this was the only solution that removed dumpster content from archive Mailbox

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I'd like to purge the TotalDeletedItems in my online archive for users since they are growing rather large and I don't plan on recovering items from archive mailboxes. &nbsp;The command to run for regular mailbox is:<br />
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Search-mailbox -identity &quot;name&quot; -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent<br />
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There does not seem to be a switch for -archive?
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I'd like to purge the TotalDeletedItems in my online archive for users since they are growing rather large and I don't plan on recovering items from archive mailboxes.  The command to run for regular mailbox is:


Search-mailbox -identity "name" -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent

There does not seem to be a switch for -archive?

Delete TotalDeletedItem in Users' Online archive only

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