Delete a specific email from all Users Mailboxes in O365.

Step 1 – Add your admin id to “Discovery Management” group

You can’t use Search-Mailbox cmd unless you have “Discovery Management” Group Rights, you can use EAC to Manage Role Group  and Grant permission to your account.

Step 2 - To use -DeleteContent switch your account requires Mailbox Import Export role Access you can follow the below steps for the same. 

·         Create a group Name Import and Export

 

New-RoleGroup “Import Export ” -Roles “Mailbox Import Export”

 

·         Add the admin ID to the role group.

 

Add-RoleGroupMember “Import Export” -Member “LABADMIN”

 

Step 3 – Run the below PowerShell to Remove the Messages

Below is the example of command I used where I had to delete email from the entire mailboxes in Organization from sender Example@gmail.com

To Query through all the mailboxes I created an array for all the mailboxes.

$mbx = Get-mailbox -resultsize Unlimited

Use below command to delete mail from all the mailboxes in organizations.

$mbx | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery "from:Example@gmail.com" -TargetMailbox “AdminMailbox” -TargetFolder "DeleteReport" -DeleteContent –Force -LogLevel Full

Note:  By default –loglevel value is set to Basic, if you want full details or message delete use -loglevel full.

You can also use subject for SearchQuery

$mbx | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery "Subject:This is Test Msg" -TargetMailbox “AdminMailbox” -TargetFolder "DeleteReport" -DeleteContent –Force -LogLevel Full

Comments

  1. Hello. I had to run this command for our on prem Exchange today and it cleaned a rouge message to over 1000 users. However when I run this command in O365 with your instructions, I get an error that Search-Mailbox is not recognized. I have loaded the Exchange cmdlets in 0365 as I can do a Get-Mailbox and it returns the list of users. Any ideas.

    Thank you.

    Ken M

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  2. Hi. Disregard my previous comment. After I re read the post and saw your instructions at the beginning to add my Global admin to the Discovery Role Group, and create the import export group and assign my admin to that role, the command ran. Thank you for the helpful post.

    KenM

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