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Deleting content from individual mailbox Exchange 2013

Hi,

I am trying to reduce individual mailboxes in Exchange 2013 but having trouble deleting content. In Exchange 2007 you could export mail and than delete content....this command does not work in the latest version of Exchange.

I have tried several commands using the Search-mailbox command and it doesn't work yet gives a success once completed but deletes no content and give 0 for ResultItemcount and Resultitemsize.

Any help would be great...

Thanks,
Rob

Will Szymkowski

You are on the right track when you are using "Search-Mailbox". Below is an example right from the Search-Mailbox Help within Powershell. This would be for an individual user.

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

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The good thing about Exchange 2013 over 2007 is that the content is deleted from the mailbox and does not need to be copied to a PST file or another mailbox before the content is removed from the original source.

Will.

nick_o78

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Thanks for that....although I am trying to delete by date and am using the following command :
Search-mailbox -identity "windows" -SearchQuery "Received:<$('2014/12/31')" -deletecontent

It runs successfully....and even has a Success : True yet the resultitemcount and resultitemsize is zero.

But I know there are emails in that mailbox for that data range.

Thanks,
Rob

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