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Exchange online Mailbox Full
Hello All,
Can someone please help me with the command to deleted the content in an exchange online mailbox folder.
I ran the compliance search and then tried to purge it but it seems to delete only 10 emails at the time with the purge command. I have a 50Gb folder that I want to clear in the mailbox.
Thanks in Advance!
5 Replies
- Have you though about using MS Graph API to delete messages from a user's online mailbox?
Here's a snip-it of what I use to clean a service account mailbox.
$uri = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/USER-OBJECTID/messages"
$DelMessage = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Headers $Header -Method Get -ContentType "application/json"
$MsgID = $DelMessage.value.Id
Foreach($MsgID_ in $MsgID)
{
Write-host $MsgID_ -ForegroundColor Yellow
$deleteuri = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/USER_UPN/messages/$MsgID_"
$DeletedMesage = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $deleteuri -Headers $Header -Method Delete -ContentType "application/json"
}
Hope this help
-Larry- Hey Larry,
Thank you for the response.
But I have never tried it and I am not sure as well how to do it.- Hey,
If your unfamiliar with Microsoft Graph, then your best bet is to use Content Search in Microsoft 365 Compliance. I created a New Search using the new Content Search and I was able to successfully deleted 275 emails from one of my Service Account online Mailbox.
-Larry
- You can still use good old Search-Mailbox cmdlet, as long as you can target the messages with it (you cannot specify a folder). Or do it via an EWS-based script. Or via Outlook/OWA as last resort.
