When run Search-Mailbox -Identity tcsoftware -SearchQuery kind:contacts -DeleteContent that I have error "not supported keyword property"

See this and use a property for a contact. Sukh

Please post the exact command and the exact error message. Try: -SearchQuery "kind:contacts" But I don't know whether that will work because I don't see where "kind" is a valid search keyword. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232132.aspx#AQSEd Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

I want to Delete all outlook contacts in a mailbox - powershell I use: search-mailbox -identity USERNAME -searchquery kind:contacts -deletecontent but I have error: not supported keyword property

the exact command is: search-mailbox -identity USERNAME -searchquery kind:contacts -deletecontent and the error is: The property keyword isnt supported

I want to Delete all outlook contacts in a mailbox I did found this command

Click the link I provided. You can't just make up your own search keywords.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

The cmdlet apparently doesn't do that.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

I've given you the answer in a different forum. I'll repeat it here. You can't just go making up your own search query keywords.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

the exact command is: search-mailbox -identity USERNAME -searchquery kind:contacts -deletecontent and the error is: The property keyword isnt supported Hi, I can't see anything wrong in the syntax. I ran it myself two weeks ago, when I needed to delete 85000 contact items from usermailbox after an Android phone went "bananas" I found the syntax in Dougs blog post Use the search-mailbox cmdlet to delete contacts in 2010 The big question is why you get the error "The property keyword isnt supported" Can you confirm that are on at least Exchange 2010 SP1 (hopefully later) and that the account you are logged on with has been assigned the roleassignment "Mailbox Import Export"? Have you tried a different mailbox or maybe kind:Task for example ? Martina Miskovic

Well, that's nice to know! Too bad it's not in Microsoft's documentation.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Yeah, the documentation for the parameter SearchQuery could be better. This doesn't say much at all: The SearchQuery parameter specifies a search string or a query formatted using Advanced Query Syntax (AQS). A link to AQS would have been nice to have there. Martina Miskovic

Yeah, the documentation for the parameter SearchQuery could be better. This doesn't say much at all: The SearchQuery parameter specifies a search string or a query formatted using Advanced Query Syntax (AQS). A link to AQS would have been nice to have there. Martina Miskovic

Hi eccazul I use your command succesfully removed all the contacts, so the command should be ok. And did you try Martina's suggestion to check the roleassignment? Also, you could have a try to Quote the SearchQuery, just like Search-Mailbox -Identity tcsoftware -SearchQuery 'kind:contacts' -DeleteContent Cheers Zi Feng TechNet Community Support

Hi eccazul I use your command succesfully removed all the contacts, so the command should be ok. And did you try Martina's suggestion to check the roleassignment? Also, you could have a try to Quote the SearchQuery, just like Search-Mailbox -Identity tcsoftware -SearchQuery 'kind:contacts' -DeleteContent Cheers Zi Feng TechNet Community Support