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Iron Contributor

Apr 22, 2022

How to get an accurate message count for a user mailbox?

We have a process by which we decommission a user mailbox after they have left the firm and that involves having a 3rd party archiving solution archive all of their messages then remove them from the...

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VasilMichev

MVP

Apr 23, 2022

Hm, I tested only against Exchange Online, so it might be a cloud-only thing 😕

[18:23:41][O365]# Get-MailboxFolderStatistics vasil -FolderScope Inbox | select *ItemsInFolder*

VisibleItemsInFolder : 6615
HiddenItemsInFolder : 150
ItemsInFolder : 6765
DeletedItemsInFolder : 0
ItemsInFolderAndSubfolders : 6777
DeletedItemsInFolderAndSubfolders : 0

Sam_T

Iron Contributor

Apr 24, 2022

Thanks for checking Vasil.