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Kostas_Ap1225
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May 17, 2022
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Hard Delete via Powershell

Hi Guys.My name is Kostas.I am pretty excited to be in this community. 🙂

I have a question.

What are the steps for a hard delete of a users mailbox via Powershell?

There has been granted a soft delete of the users mailbox.

Apart from that when trying to authenticate and archive i receive an unknown exchange error followed by Correlations ID.

After soft delet

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  • Harm_Veenstra's avatar
    Harm_Veenstra
    May 31, 2022

    Thanks, good to hear! Please mark my answer as solution to mark it as solved.

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      Kostas_Ap1225
      Copper Contributor
      May 31, 2022
      Hi,

      thanks for your answers, they were pretty helpful.
      I solved it.
      • Harm_Veenstra's avatar
        Harm_Veenstra
        MVP
        May 31, 2022

        Thanks, good to hear! Please mark my answer as solution to mark it as solved.

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    Harm_Veenstra
    MVP
    May 18, 2022

    First use Remove-Mailbox -Identity "username" and then Get-Mailbox -Identity "username" -SoftDeleted | Remove-Mailbox -PermanentlyDelete. This should remove/delete it completely.

     

     

     

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