Delete email from all mailboxes office 365
A bold request!
To delete an email from all mailboxes in Office 365, you'll need to use PowerShell and the Exchange Online PowerShell module. Here's a step-by-step guide:
Prerequisites:
- You need to have the Exchange Online PowerShell module installed on your machine. You can install it by running the following command:
Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnline
- You need to have the necessary permissions to manage Exchange Online. You can check your permissions by running the command:
Get-OrganizationConfig | fl
- You need to have the email address of the email you want to delete.
Step 1: Connect to Exchange Online
Open PowerShell and run the following command to connect to Exchange Online:
Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName <your_username> -ShowProgress $true
Replace <your_username>
with your Office 365 username.
Step 2: Get the email address
Run the following command to get the email address of the email you want to delete:
$emailAddress = "[email protected]"
Replace [email protected]
with the actual email address you want to delete.
Step 3: Delete the email from all mailboxes
Run the following command to delete the email from all mailboxes:
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | ForEach-Object { Search-Mailbox -Identity $_.Identity -SearchQuery "subject:'$emailAddress'" -DeleteContent -Force }
This command uses the Get-Mailbox
cmdlet to retrieve all mailboxes in the organization, and then uses the ForEach-Object
cmdlet to iterate through the results. For each mailbox, it uses the Search-Mailbox
cmdlet to search for the email with the specified subject (in this case, the email address you provided). The -DeleteContent
parameter deletes the email, and the -Force
parameter forces the deletion without prompting for confirmation.
Step 4: Confirm the deletion
After running the command, you'll be prompted to confirm the deletion. Type Y
and press Enter to confirm.
Important notes:
- Be careful when running this command, as it will permanently delete the email from all mailboxes in the organization.
- Make sure you have the necessary permissions and are authorized to delete emails from all mailboxes.
- If you want to delete emails from a specific mailbox or set of mailboxes, you can modify the
Get-Mailbox
cmdlet to specify the mailbox or mailboxes you want to target.