Hi, I have to delete 6 months old mails from the mailbox of some users (300 users). All the users are using OWA only. Kindly suggest is there any way to delete the emails old than 6 months just by running the Powershell script on Exchange Server. Regards Supreet Singh

Hi I think you can achieve by using messaging records management http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/compliance-policies-archiving/exchange-2007-messaging-records-management-part1.htmlJonas Andersson MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuration | MCITP: EMA | MCSE/MCSA Blog: http://www.testlabs.se/blog

hi jonas, this will solve organisation wise. But supreet is looking forward for a some specific users. as he mentioned in the question

Hi Supreet, You can use cmdlet Export-Mailbox with parameter -DeleteContent and -EndDate to delete mails. First, suggest you read this document: How to Export Mailbox Data http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb266964(EXCHG.80).aspx For your question, you can use filter to get some users then pipeline the results to Export-Mailbox. More information about Export-Mailbox http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998579(EXCHG.80).aspxFrank Wang

Hi Frank, Thanks for your suggestion. I got this done with this script "Export-Mailbox -Identity test2 -StartDate "05/05/2010" -EndDate "05/06/2010" -DeleteContent" I have around 300 users having generic IDs whose old emails has to be deleted. And the user name starts with a common word (lets say 'Test' - Test1111,Test1222,test2333,Test4444). I need something like to export the output from the get-user or get-mailbox command with a filter on the basis of email id/user name and forward this output with the help of PIPE command to the above given script. Kindly suggest. Regards Supreet Singh

Hi Supreet, You can run this cmdlet to get the filter results: Get-User | where { $_.name -like "Test*" } Frank Wang

Thanks everyone, I got the solution to delete content from the specific dates by below. Export-Mailbox -Identity test2 -StartDate "05/05/2010" -EndDate "05/06/2010" -DeleteContent"