The following may help you figure out what work has been completed: My question(s) is/are: is this even possible? AM I missing anything? Without errors, how to I track this down? Get-mailbox -identity 'some valid user' |search-mailbox -contentfilter (received -gt '') -deleteContentĪlso just used search-mailbox by itself with equally unimpressive results. I now have scripts that produce no error messages and also do not delete anything. I ran into some syntactical issues and clear those up. I believe I've found a couple of examples that should have worked. I've searched these forms and the net for scripts that might do the job. Only once have I seen anything in Event Viewer that says deleting expired messages.Ģ. Lastly run the script start-managedfolderassistant -identity 'some valid user' and sat back and waited. Then set tags for all users with this policy. Using the gui I have set the 1 year delete as the only policy. I have tried two approaches, both of which do not work.ġ.

What I want to do now is to delete all messages from the mailbox database that are older than 1 year. I have set them up with a third partyĪrchive system and that piece is working quite well.

As you might imagine their mailbox database has grown pretty large. The end users have never deleted mail since day 1. This Exchange server is in SBS 2011 Standard if that makes a difference.

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