hello,

can anyone help with this request?

I need to clean a dumpster from 1-1-2010 until now ( keeping everything BEFORE 1-1-2010 )

i am using the cmdlet:

Search-Mailbox identity alias SearchDumpsterOnly DeleteContent

not sure what to add to meet my date range needs.

Thanks

Hi ,

Please check the below mentioned script.

del C:\Scripts\nithya\dontdelete\*.*
$a=(Get-Date).AddDays(-1).ToString('MM-dd-yyyy')
Search-Mailbox -Identity "nithya@abc.com" -SearchDumpsterOnly -SearchQuery "Received<$a" -DeleteContent -force >>  "C:\Scripts\nithya\dontdelete\Log $(get-date -f dd-MM-yyyy).csv"
Send-MailMessage -To "ramya@abc.com" -From "nithyamail@abc.com" -Subject "nithya Mails Delete Log $(get-date -f dd-MM-yyyy)" -Smtpserver "192.168.1.10" -Attachments "C:\Scripts\nithya\dontdelete\Log $(get-date -f dd-MM-yyyy).csv"

Above mentioned script will delete the only the emails which belongs to day before yesterday from the dumpster by referring the current date which was called on the script.You should have to adjust the days based on your requirement.

Note : Please test this script for anyone of the test  mailbox and then try to use it for production.

Hi Thanks for the response.

The above script seems to delete EVERYTHING prior to today's date

< $a=(Get-Date).AddDays(-1).ToString('MM-dd-yyyy') >

My question is how do i specify a date range of 1-1-2010 to < $a=(Get-Date).AddDays(-1).ToString('MM-dd-yyyy') >

leaving everything BEFORE 1-1-2010 untouched

Thanks

Hi ,

Search-Mailbox -identity "nithya@abc.com" -SearchQuery Received>=$('1-1-2010') -DeleteContent -SearchDumpsterOnly

Above is the command which will delete only the emails from the dumpster available on the nithya's mailbox which starts from the date 1-1-2010 and so on.

Please reply me if you have any queries.