At some point you are bound to find yourself in a situation where you need to read more of an email
message from one or more mailboxes.
These may be due to a message being sent to one of your distribution lists or other parts of some kind
of spam or virus related outbreak.
If you have worked with Exchange 2007 you might be familiar with the expert mail box command lead that
could be previously used to perform this task with the exchange 2010 has been won and the command led
search mail box was introduced Luscum command language received further improvements in exchange 2013
can be used to clean up mailboxes.
In this video we'll take a look at how to do that.
Let's look at how to delete messages from mailboxes.
You're going to follow insteps.
If you have not already done so you'll need to use the following command to sign your account.
The mailbox import export and mailbox search are back roads which are old based access control arose.
So you'll need to restore the shell after running these commands for the search mailbox command left
to be visible.
You have to type the full and come out.
New management prolix assignment or role and to the role you want to specify in our case it's mailbox
import export.
And for the user administrator the next command will assign search mailbox roles so you have to type
new mail but new management role all assignments all mails.
Search for the user administrator next.
Use user search mailbox command lead to delete items from a mailbox.
In this example I use a search query to delete my attempts with the word suppress in the subject line.
So you have to type search my old box identity test user search Guerrera it with a subject suppress
in single quotes and the whole Guerra in double quotes and delete content with forced parameter like
you to delete any items from a mailbox.
Either delete contents of each parameter used in the search mailbox and let one run of the amount in
the previous example and in message match in the subject specified in the search Guerrera will be deleted
without any confirmation and an output similar to my output will be displayed as you can see.
There is a lot of useful information or account that indicates whether or not the delete operation was
successful.
How many times were deleted and total item size of the deleted messages and so on.
Keep in mind that the search mailbox command letter will include messages in a user Sir Clive mailbox
and the dumpster.
Them the primary mailbox as part of the search to exclude leads.
Use the following syntax search.
Mailbox.
Identity.
Test User.
Search querent with this object.
Suppress.
Do not include or kif search.
Dumpster equals to false and delete content parameter was for parameter.
The search parameter is used to specify the criteria on your search using keyword Cuero Langridge or
K-Q L which is the same querist syntax used in Sharepoint.
When composing a command you need to use the property name followed by a colon and then the text you
want to Querrey.
There are several KQ properties that can be used.
Some are the most common properties are subject body sound to from an attachment.
Of course permanently deleting data from someone's mailbox is not something that should be done without
total confidence.
If you are unsure of results or if you just want to cover your bases you can to use a full and syntax
to generate a report of the items that will be deleted.
You could type get mail box and pipe it to search mailbox with search where a parameter from spammer
and contorts are dot com in double quotes and estimate resolved only parameter and then export to sales
fee specify the location where there says the file will reside there's no tight perimeter.
This example uses the estimator resolved only parameter when executive search mailbox come and left.
You can see here or there if your executor in one line or alert will search each mailbox for messages
sent from spammer and contorts or dot com.
And the estimate of the results is expert that says the file that you can use to determine how much
data will be cleaned up out of each individual mailbox if you need a more detailed report.
We can use their logon capabilities or their search mailbox come on let the following command perform
a search on the test user mailbox and generates some reports that we can use to determine exactly what
we'll be do later.
You could type search mailbox with identity test user search Querrey parameter for subject subgraphs
or any subject you want to find Targett mailbox administrator or system men turgid folder.
Let's say delete log and look only and look level full parameters.
This is made possible by the lock only switch parameter.
This will generate a message in a Target mailbox folder that you specify.
In this example you can see that the target folder of the report is that do it look folder in the CIS
admin mailbox list report real grew wider with a summary of the items that will be deleted and search
if you revert to run this command in the delit content perimeter.
When setting the lock level parameter Well you too fool a zip file containing a specific report that
lists each of the items returned by the search will be attached to this message.
Sometimes you need to delete items from several mailboxes in a ball coporation their form in one liner
can be used to delete messages from ever a mail mailbox in their organization.
Get mailbox resolve size and limited by search mailbox with search Guerrera for on spam or at contorts
adult comments and quotes and delete content perimeter.
Forced parameter.
In this example your pipe in all the mailboxes in the organization to the search mailbox command left
and a any messages sent from the spammer that controls so dot com email address will be deleted.