Empty mailbox report items and size
Empty mailbox report items and size
Env:
Servers: WS2003, E2007SP2
Clients: WinXPSP3, OWA-Outlook 2007 SP2
I'm using scheduled report for monitoring some resource mailboxes.
powershell commands: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics <mailbox> -FolderScope Inbox | Export-html ...
Date : 10.12.2010 08:50:29
Name : Inbox
Identity : <----admin erase---->\Inbox
FolderPath : /Inbox
FolderId : LgAAAABqeHvM1donRaZ+jLOLBZ2uAQAeNS4wPAo6RKjdDdAKgn
gxApLqUsbfAAAB
FolderType : Inbox
ItemsInFolder : 1
FolderSize : 138B
ItemsInFolderAndSubfolders : 1
FolderAndSubfolderSize : 138B
OldestItemReceivedDate :
NewestItemReceivedDate :
ManagedFolder :
very clean 1 new message (short one)
but when I go to mailbox with Outlook or OWA, I can't notice any message, Inbox is empty
I neglected problem several months.
But I started some tests yesterday and I came to interesting conclusions
When I recreate mailbox (disable-mailbox and new-mailbox)
report is exact, 0 for empty mailbox or correct number for test messages
but only if I use Outlook
when I start using OWA immediately mailbox get +1 message and +138B
I used MFCmapi and noticed that mailbox got PR_ASSOC_CONTENT_COUNT : 1
PR_CONTENT_COUNT is 0 (no messages in mailbox)
but my report also got 1 item and 138B size
It's desperately and funny
So I recreate mailbox again and refrain from using OWA
Q:
Is some solution to erase OWA settings without recreating mailbox?
Is Get-MailboxFolderStatistics fixed in E2010 ??
December 10th, 2010 4:17am
Hi,
As
the article mentioned, a mailbox can hidden items that are never visible to the user and that are only used by applications. The Get-MaiboxFolderStatistics
cmdlet can return hidden items for the following values: FolderSize, FolderAndSubfolderSize, ItemsInFolder, and ItemsInFilderAndSubfolders.
And based on your description, I did a test and found that the result will report 1 item and 138B size when we log on to OWA and no email in Inbox actually. And then,
I used MFCMAPI and got PR_ASSOC_CONTENT_COUNT: 1 and PR_CONTENT_COUNT:0. And next, I right-click the Inbox and selected “Open Associated Contents Table”, the hidden message will be viewed. When I deleted the hidden email, the result will return
0 item and 0B size if we ran the cmdlet.
Best regards,
Serena
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December 15th, 2010 4:04am
It works
THANK YOU very much
I delete hidden message with subject:Err:0X8004010F=MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND, size 138B
and I get zero size report with
Get-MailboxFolderStatistics <----admin erase----> -FolderScope Inbox
But every time I logon with OWA, message is created again. I fire MFCmapi again and delete message (it's less than recreating mailbox)
December 29th, 2010 7:38am
Be carefull
I did this on my Inbox, because hidden messages have same subject:Err:0X8004010F=MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND
and found that all my rules and views was gone
Definitely MS must work with same options (-all, -hidden, -public, -system, -user ...) on Get-MailboxFolderStatistics
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December 30th, 2010 4:59am