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Remove Deleted Items within Date Range via Exchange Management Shell

We are looking for an Exchange management shell command that will specify a user's mailbox and delete messages from their deleted items folder within a specified date range.

Any assistance would be appreciated.,
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You can try the following powershell script to accomplish this...

This command below will do one individual user.
$Date = get-date
New-MailboxExportRequest -ContentFilter {(Received -lt $date.adddays(-100)) -and (Received -gt $date.adddays(-150) )} -Mailbox <mailboxName> -IncludeFolders "#DeletedItems#" -FilePath "\\servername\PSTFILES\name.pst"

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If you want to do this for multiple users at once use the below command...
$Users = get-content "c:\users.txt"
$Date = get-date
foreach ($user in $Users) {
New-MailboxExportRequest -ContentFilter {(Received -lt $date.adddays(-100)) -and (Received -gt $date.adddays(-150) )} -Mailbox $User -IncludeFolders "#DeletedItems#" -FilePath "\\servername\PSTFILES\$User.pst"
}

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Will.
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Thanks is there any way to do this from the exchange management shell directly without the need for .pst files?

If possible we would like to use something like the below but specify the deleted items folder and a date range:

Search-Mailbox -Identity "April Stewart" -SearchQuery "Subject:'Your bank statement'" -DeleteContent
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