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Problem
You have a nasty email that contains a virus or some offensive content and you want to delete ALL instances of it.
Solution
1. Log on as the domain administrator > Open the Exchange Command Shell.
2. First grant the correct rights to the administrator account.
This gives the Administrator FULL rights to ALL mailbox’s
Get-mailbox -Database “Mailbox Database”| add-mailboxpermission -user administrator -AccessRights FullAccess
Note: this assumes your mailbox database is called “Mailbox Database”.
3. Then locate and delete the emails containing “yoursearchtext”.
Get-Mailbox -Database “Mailbox Database” | Export-Mailbox -SubjectKeywords “yoursearchtext” -DeleteContent
Note: If you are unable to use the export-mailbox command then see here
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