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Exchange power shell 2010 - emptying deleted items folder

is there a way or a combination of cmdlets one could use to empty a users deleted folder ?

I have heard of search-mailbox but not seeing much in the help on how to use it.

Kotteeswaran Rajendran

Hi,

Here you go:

Search-mailbox -identity <alias> -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent

http://stevehardie.com/2012/05/exchange-2010-purge-dumpster/

jrojas1213

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yes I found that and did not work because that is deleting the dumpster which is where it goes after a user empties the deleted folder. that way when they say oops there is still time to recover it.

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jrojas1213

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Thanks for the solution acbrown. I have applied the retention policy and found out that it does not apply the policy according to the mailbox processing which is set in my case to 24 hours. I have run Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity “Administrator” to force but the policy still has not applied. does it still take some time even after the force ?

Adam Brown

Existing emails have to be "tagged" with the policy in order to get removed by it. You can do this by opening the mailbox is outlook and right-clicking the folder, then selecting the option to apply the existing retention policy (I think. I don't have a valid test in front of me at the moment. Working off memory).