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A user has requested us to extract attached image files from a large amount of emails on outlook. Their are duplicate names (i.e. Image001) which has made either extracting manually or running a VB script through outlook fail due to the script overriding the duplicates. Is there a powershell or VB script to extract these for us from a .PST file? Any methods to remove the attachments from emails would be appreciated, thanks.
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A user has requested us to extract attached image files from a large amount of emails on outlook. Their are duplicate names (i.e. Image001) which has made either extracting manually or running a VB script through outlook fail due to the script overriding the duplicates. Is there a powershell or VB script to extract these for us from a .PST file? Any methods to remove the attachments from emails would be appreciated, thanks.

Script to extract attatchments from a .PST file

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