We have a request to search all of our mailbox databases for just a couple of search terms. When we export the searched data to a .pst file and open it, it breaks the user mailboxes down into folders but also has every subfolder within the user mailboxes under every users mailbox name. We only want the folders in which there is pertinent data in it to show up NOT every folder in every user mailbox. Any scripts that would help and/or examples would be greatly appreciated.

Which version of Exchange are you running and please provide a sample of the command you are runningTroy Werelius www.Lucid8.com

Exchange 2007 Enterprise $olApp = new-object -com Outlook.Application $namespace = $olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI") #Root folder to match, look in your outlook and look at what folders you have. #RooFolders could be Mailbox - <username>, Public folders, or other mapped in PST's or mailboxes. $RootfolderToMatch = "Personal Folders" $Global:StopValue = 1 Function ListEmpty { Param ($infolder) Foreach ($fldr in $infolder.Folders) { If ($fldr.Items.Count -eq 0 -and $fldr.Folders.Count -eq 0) { # I have had to check for system folders, these cannot be deleted via the script, so to prevent the script for erroring out, I check for it. if ($fldr.name -match "Deleted Items") #if ($fldr.name -match "Slettet" -or $fldr.name -match "Deleted" -or $fldr.name -match "journal" -or $fldr.name -match "rss"` # -or $fldr.name -match "note" -or $fldr.name -match "kalender" -or $fldr.name -match "kontakt" -or $fldr.name -match "udbakke" ` # -or $fldr.name -match "Sync" -or $fldr.name -match "Server" -or $fldr.name -match "contacts" -or $fldr.name -match "Outbox" ) {"Cannot delete systemfolder : " + $fldr.FolderPath # } Else { if ($fldr.Parent.name -notmatch "slettet" -and $fldr.Parent.name -notmatch "Deleted" ) { #Remove # from the below line, to actually delete Outlook folders. "Deleting : " + $fldr.FolderPath $fldr.delete() $Global:StopValue = 0 } } } Else { if ($fldr.name.length -gt 0) { ListEmpty($fldr)} } } } date # print date and time $RootFolders = $namespace.Folders | ?{$_.name -match $RootfolderToMatch} Listempty($RootFolders) While ($Global:StopValue -eq 0) { $Global:StopValue = 1 Listempty($RootFolders) } date # print date and timeJames D. Lowry jlowry@scopelitis.com 317-492-9285

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