How to Purge the Exchange 2010 Dumpster and recover white space instantly

How to Purge the Exchange 2010 Dumpster and recover white space instantly

 

Give Administrator Discovery Management role in AD Users and Computers Microsoft Exchange Security Group:

Give Administrator Mailbox Import and Export Role assignemnt:

New-Managementroleassignment –Role "mailbox import export" –user YOURACCOUNT

 

 

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Get-MailboxFolderStatistics | where{$_.FolderType -eq "DeletedItems"} | Select-Object Identity, {$_.FolderAndSubFolderSize.ToMb()}, ItemsInFolderAndSubFolders | Export-CSV C:\temp\DeletedItems.csv

 

Get-MailboxStatistics -Identity <mailbox alias> | Select DisplayName,ItemCount,TotalItemSize

 

Get-MailboxStatistics -Identity <mailbox alias>| select DisplayName,TotalDeletedItemSize

 

Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity <mailbox alias> -FolderScope RecoverableItems | Select Identity,ItemsInFolder,FolderAndSubfolderSize

 

Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft Name,DatabaseSize,AvailableNewMailboxSpace -auto

 

Search-Mailbox -Identity <mailbox alias> -SearchDumpsterOnly –DeleteContent