I was tasked with deleting a service account users old mail. Our CRM Mailbox user had 29.5GB of old mail floating around that needed to be purged. Adding access to the account was a no-no (and would probably crash out Outlook for a while) due to company policies. Powershell to the rescue?<\/p>\n
I should probably mention that this is on Exchange 2010 in a DAG (2 servers) with SP3 hotfix 4 applied. Yes, I also know hotfix 5 is available.<\/p>\n
I attempted to run the following script:<\/strong> And I was told that the “search-mailbox” command was not found. Great. Verified that I was using the Exchange Management Powershell instead of just Windows PS. True story.<\/p>\n After a lot of searching I realized that our former Exchange Admin wasn’t very good at PowerShell. The Admin Tasks Management Powershell add-in was not available.<\/p>\n Check Available PowerShell Snap-ins<\/strong> Verify that the plugin is available<\/strong> Add the snap-in<\/strong> I ended up closing the powershell window and then re-opening it. My search mailbox and delete content commands now work!<\/p>\n Other commands I did:<\/strong> I was tasked with deleting a service account users old mail. Our CRM Mailbox user had 29.5GB of old mail floating around that needed to be purged. Adding access to the account was a no-no (and would probably crash out Outlook for a while) due to company policies. Powershell to the rescue? I should probably … Continue reading Delete Exchange Users Old Mail<\/span>
\nSearch-Mailbox -Identity SOMEUSERNAME -SearchQuery '(Received:01\/01\/2012..12\/31\/2012)' -Deletecontent -Force<\/code><\/p>\n
\nGet-PSSnapin<\/code>
\nNotice Exchange Server Admin Tasks is not available.<\/p>\n
\nGet-PSSnapin -registered<\/code><\/p>\n
\nAdd-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010<\/code><\/p>\n
\nAdded my user to the Discovery Management role in the ECP (https:\/\/yourmailserver.tld\/ecp)
\nCreated two new groups to allow the import and export of mailboxes, and then the exchange support and diagnostics:
\nNew-RoleGroup -Name \"Exchange Mailbox Import Export\" -Roles \"Mailbox Import Export\" -Members \"domain\\username\" -DisplayName \"Exchange Mailbox Import Export\" -Description \"This group handles permissions to the import and export commands in powershell.\"<\/code>
\nNew-RoleGroup -Name \"Exchange Support and Diagnostics\" -Roles \"Support Diagnostics\" -Members \"domain\\username\" -DisplayName \"Exchange Support Diagnostics\" -Description \"This group handles permissions to the support diagnostics cmdlets in exchange.\"<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"