how to check the total size for the deleted items organization wide in exchange 2010 and implement a policy to delete mails older that 30 days in Deleted item folder for all the users (similar to what it was in exchange 2003, mailbox policy)

Try this script from EMS for getting deleted items size for users, Get-Mailbox | %{ $_ | Select-Object Name, @{n='DeletedItemSize';e={ ` (Get-MailboxFolderStatistics $_.Identity -FolderScope DeletedItems).FolderAndSubfolderSize }}} For Messaging Records Management MRM, http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/compliance-policies-archiving/exchange-2007-messaging-records-management-part1.htmlMVP Exchange Server

Thanks for sharing the script.. about the MRM, I know it was there in E2k7 EMC, but it's not available in E2k10 console.. I beleive it's replaced by retention policies. Thanks again, Rakesh

Hi John, I want the deleted item size not for individual users but at database level. Like sum of the deleted item size for all users in single database. A script which I can run which gives me similar result for all say 50 databases in a report format. I will appreciate if you can help me with this.

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:39:21 +0000, RakeshMishra wrote: > > >Hi John, > >I want the deleted item size not for individual users but at database level. Like sum of the deleted item size for all users in single database. A script which I can run which gives me similar result for all say 50 databases in a report format. I will appreciate if you can help me with this. PerfMon. "MSExchangeIS Mailbox \ Total Size of Recoverable Items" If you want to use Powershell to get the information you can do something like this (it's "per server" -- you'd have do this fro each daabase if you want information on each database): $a = "MSExchangeIS Mailbox", "Total Size of Recoverable Items", "_Total" $ctr = new-object System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter $a [void]$ctr.NextValue() start-sleep 1 $value = $ctr.NextValue() --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi Rakesh, Agree with Rich, I think checking your performance monitor is a better way. For detailed, please see: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF022.html Best regards, SerenaPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi, Agree with Rich, I think checking your performance monitor is a better way. For detailed, please see: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF022.html Best regards, Serena Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I think we have lost the track of discussion: I need to report only the size of deleted items which appears in mailbox ( not the deleted item retention - hard deleted emails. Obviously this would not be reported in performance counter.

The command is not working as it supposed to. It gives me the size of deleted itmes only for the last user in the list.

please ignore..I was able to get the report I wanted..I ran the following command: get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | Get-MailboxFolderStatistics | where{$_.name -like "deleted* "} | ft identity, FolderAndSubfolderSize >c:/report\report.csv

Thanks for the follow up and glad to hear you resolved issue. I will have to put that script in my Exchange 2010 file.MVP Exchange Server

Hi, Thanks for sharing. Best regards, Serena Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:39:21 +0000, RakeshMishra wrote: >I want the deleted item size not for individual users but at database level. Like sum of the deleted item size for all users in single database. A script which I can run which gives me similar result for all say 50 databases in a report format. I will appreciate if you can help me with this. $del = 0 Get-Mailbox -database <dbname> | foreach { $del += (Get-MailboxFolderStatistics $_.Identity -FolderScope DeletedItems).FolderAndSubfolderSize.ToBytes() } $del --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:39:33 +0000, RakeshMishra wrote: > > >please ignore..I was able to get the report I wanted..I ran the following command: > >get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | Get-MailboxFolderStatistics | where{$_.name -like "deleted* "} | ft identity, FolderAndSubfolderSize >c:/report\report.csv But that gives you the sizes of the deleted items in individual mailboxes, not the size of all deleted items in mailboxes per database. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Yes, I know, I ran the same command with database parameter.