I am sure this question was asked in some form or fashion however I am missing portions of what I am looking for. I know that PowerShell is the only way to do this and I want to be 1000% sure before I do anything. What I would like to do is first run a report to a text file to "look" for a particular message on all mailboxes server wide. I then would like to run a seperate script against the server to actually remove or relocate the message. Thank you in advance,

Check out Lucid8's DigiScope http://www.lucid8.com/product/digiscope.asp it can run the search across specific or ALL mailboxes, present you the results and then lets you Export, Delete or Purge (aka scrub the data)Troy Werelius www.Lucid8.com

This is probably the best lead I have seen so far. I am concerned what the cost is however I am going to try the demo out. Many thanks.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/10/27/456739.aspx

Thank you for this link. I did see this as well however there is nothing that will show you in a test file or something of what the results are before you go ahead and delete. I wish there was something that will display what the results of the command are before you acutally issue it. Meaning know exactly what you remove before you remove it.

Happy to assist and BTW there are Project Based licenses available that may make more sense if you are just doing a one off project. Troy Werelius www.Lucid8.com

One eexample in the article will delete the content but copy it to a target mailbox, so that you have a copy. You cn also try adding the -whatif parameter to the export-mailbox cmdlet (but test it with non-critical mailboxes even before this.) As for doing a search, have you looked at multi-mailbox search in 2010 (needs Enterprise CALs) ? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335072.aspx

Thank you for these options. I guess since anything data destructive wise I would prefer to have something that would show you what is being moved/deleted before you do it just to be sure. That DigiScope product looks like the best/safest option as you can see what is going to be done before you actually do it. Thank you for your taking time to respond to this.