Thank you both, I just found that too. Here is what I went with and it is working. Since I do not care if I save the content..........
It has been a bad day here with this, but is ending on a happy note thanks to you and Michael. Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited | Export-Mailbox -SubjectKeywords "You have got a new E-Card from your friend!" -DeleteContent From: Angie Urtel [mailto:200...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Help export-mailbox issues (a bit urgent) You still need the -DeleteContent switch On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Kennedy, Jim <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org<mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: Closer. [PS] C:\>Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited | export-mailbox -SubjectKeywords "Yo u have got a new E-Card from a friend!" -PSTFolderPath C:\PSTFiles Is creating pst's for each user. But not deleting the messages in question. And the pst's contain a bunch of other mail that should not be included for many users. I am getting the calendars also. But empty pst's for many users, and these empty ones have the subjects I need to delete. I am running this one from my desktop. There is one CAS and to mailbox servers if that is important. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com<mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com>] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help export-mailbox issues (a bit urgent) Target it to a PST instead of a mailbox. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org<mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Help export-mailbox issues (a bit urgent) Exchange 2007. I am certain the account I am using has access to all the mailboxes. We got tagged with an ecard virus. How it got through the spam/virus filter is under investigation. In the meantime I need to delete messages from a bunch of mailboxes with a specific subject. >From powershell I issue: Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited | ex port-mailbox -SubjectKeywords "You have got a new E-Card from a friend!" -Target folder ECards -TargetMailbox KennedyJim -DeleteContent Trying to get it to copy them to a folder in my mailbox then delete them. But I honestly don't care about the copy. But it seems to be mandatory. Here is the error I am getting: Export-Mailbox : The source mailbox 'Kennedy, Jim' and target mailbox 'Kennedy, Jim' are the same, and is not supported by this command. At line:1 char:51 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
