Exchange Powershell Command

[BassTech]

I'm trying to delete all Inbox, Sent Items & Deleted Items from our student mailboxes, this is the command I'm trying to run:

 

Get-MailboxDatabase “Students Database” | Export-Mailbox -TargetMailbox TESTSTUDENT -IncludeFolders "\Inbox" "\Sent Items" "\Deleted Items" -DeleteContent

 

 

All students have their own database so I've specified that, I'm trying it with just our TESTSTUDENT account first as a test, but powershell keeps throwing the error:

 

[PS] C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.DOMAIN\Desktop>Get-MailboxDatabase

"Students Database" | Export-Mailbox -TargetMailbox TESTSTUDENT -IncludeFolders

"\Inbox" "\Sent Items" "\Deleted Items" -DeleteContent

Export-Mailbox : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '

\Deleted Items'.

At line:1 char:57

+ Get-MailboxDatabase "Students Database" | Export-Mailbox <<<< -TargetMailbox

TESTSTUDENT -IncludeFolders "\Inbox" "\Sent Items" "\Deleted Items" -DeleteCon

tent

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: ( : ) [Export-Mailbox], Parameter

BindingException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.Exchange.M

anagement.RecipientTasks.ExportMailbox

 

The permissions are defiantly correct, I'm wondering if anyone can spot anything wrong in my script?

 

Thanks!

[HPlum78]

Seems it cannot find the TESTSTUDENT mailbox should it not be export-mailbox -identity teststudent@.......

[BassTech]

I've found a different way of doing it now, using this command:

 

Get-Mailbox -OrganizationalUnit Students -Identity teststudent | Export-Mailbox -DeleteContent

 

which seems to work

Edited January 6, 2016 by BassTech