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Remove-ComplianceSearchAction no longer working
I have a script that performs a search on all our Exchange Online mailboxes for a string and deletes any emails containing that string. To do this, I create a Compliance Search and the an associated Compliance Search Action.
The script cleans up after itself by using Remove-ComplianceSearch and Remove-ComplianceSearchAction. The former works fine, but the latter command has started to fail in the last couple of weeks.
If I run GetComplianceSearchAction it will return (e.g.)
Name SearchName Action
---- ---------- ------
SEARCHNR2DLPVXPaddles12Races_Purge SEARCHNR2DLPVXPaddles12Races Purge
SEARCH4051428013Par!Offends_Purge SEARCH4051428013Par!Offends Purge
SEARCH40269400670LinksMonochromatic$_Purge SEARCH40269400670LinksMonochromatic$ Purge
SEARCH402387051^Courses92Bolts_Purge SEARCH402387051^Courses92Bolts Purge
SEARCHYCQAI3AC78^ReplaceUntied_Purge SEARCHYCQAI3AC78^ReplaceUntied Purge
SEARCH405194894Overtaking#77Discographies_Purge SEARCH405194894Overtaking#77Discographies Purge
SEARCH403844459&ApologizesFrequencies13_Purge SEARCH403844459&ApologizesFrequencies13 Purge
But running Remove-ComplianceSearch on (e.g.) "SEARCHNR2DLPVXPaddles12Races_Purge" returns an" error "The compliance search object "SEARCHNR2DLPVXPaddles12Races" cannot be found.
This was all working fine until very recently. Has something changed in the ExchangePowerShell module? How can I make the script see the purge action?
- Just tried doing a Remove-ComplianceSearch in one of our old tenants, no issues there... Are you still facing this issue in your tenant now?