Recall email as admin Office 365

[edie209]

If an member of staff or student was to send a whole school email via office 365 what is the best method of removing that email even if it has been read by some of the recipients?

[synaesthesia]

Simple as this, you don't. Email recalling has never worked particularly well anyway.

If it's a particularly bad email that students don't want to be reading for safety reasons you can certainly log into their mailbox and remove manually, and there may well be a powershell script that can help do the same in bulk but that would be way beyond me...

[Boredguy]

Additional information, there is some limitation about the recall service. For outside email , the email can't retract back. For the inside email, if the email has been read. also can't retracted.

 

For email recall , it's a client side feature. It requires the sender and recipient are using Outlook client during the recall service.

[Cache]

You'll want to do something in powershell really, Office 365 page is here: Search For and Delete Messages from Users' Mailboxes and you'll want something like the code sample near the bottom. Edited November 4, 2014 by Cache

[zag]

I've done this before, you can do it in the GUI I seem to remember.

 

Just search for the subject.

 

I've also used powershell as well.

[netadmin]

One option for deleting the email from student/staff mailboxes hosted on Office365 would be for you as the Office365 tenant admin to run the Search-Mailbox command in Powershell to locate and delete the email from all mailboxes. I'd recommend using the log only option initially to test your search query.

 

Houston we have a problem... Search-Mailbox | Marcin Milewski

LetsExchange.in: Delete a specific email from all Users Mailboxes in O365.