bandgeekmafia78 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Hi. Really urgent help needed. A member of staff has accidentely sent a private and confidential email to ALL of our Year 10 students. Luckily they are not in today. Is it possible to prevent these students seeing the email even though the message has already been sent? I think I know the answer but worth a shot. We are running Exchange 2007 if that helps. Thanks!
icttech Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Hi if they have not opened the email you can recall the mail
icttech Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Recall or replace a message after it is sent - Outlook - Office.com Really easy to do 1
JJonas Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 I might be worth disabling their accounts until you sort it out. Even if that means resetting all their email passwords. 1
JRMatthews Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 yes you can! Exchange Server 2007 Cross Mailbox Search using Export-mailbox - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs 1
bandgeekmafia78 Posted July 7, 2011 Author Report Posted July 7, 2011 We have dismounted the student email database in the meantime so fingers crossed the suggestions above will work. Cheers.
Trapper Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Recall sometimes doesn't work. Frankly if you want to be completely sure either a) Manually open the boxes and delete, or b) Remove the message from the db and then open 25% of the mail boxes to confirm it's gone. Speak to STariq he's near enough an expert at this. 1
ChrisMiles Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 This is the fastest way to do it: Export-Mailbox: Search for and delete emails in Exchange 2007 mailboxes using PowerShell use powershell and Export-Mailbox to find and delete the mail. 1
bandgeekmafia78 Posted July 8, 2011 Author Report Posted July 8, 2011 Thanks ChrisMiles - this appeared to work. Our major headache is that the subject line was left blank so we had to amend the PowerShell script to say Export-Mailbox -ContentKeywords " " Panic Over!
sukh Posted July 8, 2011 Report Posted July 8, 2011 1. As you know now that you can use PS to search the mailbox and delete/export the content. 2. For future, maybe you should use transport rules to prevent this.
ChrisMiles Posted July 8, 2011 Report Posted July 8, 2011 Thanks ChrisMiles - this appeared to work. Our major headache is that the subject line was left blank so we had to amend the PowerShell script to say Export-Mailbox -ContentKeywords " " Panic Over! Glad you got it sorted, its always a nightmare when things like this happen.
bandgeekmafia78 Posted July 8, 2011 Author Report Posted July 8, 2011 Just in case this happens to anyone in the future, here is how I managed to solve the problem... In Exchange Management Shell: Get-Mailbox -Server exchangeservername | Add-MailboxPermission -User administrator -AccessRights Fullaccess -InheritanceType all Get-Mailbox –ResultSize Unlimited -Server exchangeservername | Export-Mailbox -ContentKeywords "write here a part of the email body exact" -StartDate "07/07/2011" –DeleteContent Note: if you want to do this for 1 recipient rather than every mailbox, change ‘-Server’ to –‘Identity’
zag Posted July 8, 2011 Report Posted July 8, 2011 Exmerge will do the same thing and is a nicer interface. 1
pooley Posted July 8, 2011 Report Posted July 8, 2011 I have had to do this before, thank "deity" for powershell. As an aside, could this have been achieved if the OP was using live@edu?
zag Posted July 8, 2011 Report Posted July 8, 2011 As an aside, could this have been achieved if the OP was using live@edu? Having just migrated my entire school to live@edu I would be very interested in the answer. You get powershell access to the exchange online pod but not sure if its possible.
ChrisMiles Posted July 8, 2011 Report Posted July 8, 2011 Exmerge will do the same thing and is a nicer interface. Exmerge doesnt support Exchange 2010, Exmerge is for 2003 and lower.
bandgeekmafia78 Posted July 8, 2011 Author Report Posted July 8, 2011 Exmerge will do the same thing and is a nicer interface. Exmerge is only for Exchange 2000 and 2003 isn't it?
sukh Posted July 8, 2011 Report Posted July 8, 2011 @Zag - You can do it via Live@Edu once you have PS access, if the backend is Exch 2007 then use the same command, if it'x Exch 2010 then use the below Search-Mailbox -Identity "Stident" -SearchQuery 'Subject:"Name of Subject"' -DeleteContent @Chris/BandGeekMafia - Exmerge supports 2000/2003/2007, 2010 no longer supports Exmerge. If you run Exmerger against 2007 you have to do it on a management PC not from the Exch server, i.e which meets the sys requirements. Sukh 2
sjatkn Posted July 11, 2011 Report Posted July 11, 2011 Exmerge will do the same thing and is a nicer interface. I've just had the same thing happen here, so all the advice given was much appreciated.
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