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Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Xenophane

Xenophane — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:13:51 +0000

HI Nathan
Sorry for the late reply, I have been travelling with work
Why have you changed the namespace to “Test” ? MAPI is what is used to connect through outlook.

Which version of Outlook to you have installed on your system

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:52:31 +0000

Hi Xenophane,

this script could answer a big problem we are havinf but im having issues running it. I keep getting an error:
Exception calling “GetNamespace” with “1″ argument(s): “Could not complete the oper
ation. One or more parameter values are not valid.”
At line:2 char:33
+ $namespace = $olApp.GetNamespace <<<< ("TEST")
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

im not sure if its me as i have little scripting knowledge. maybe im not replacing names in the script correctly?

Comment on Send SMS through bibob with Powershell by Kristian Sloth Lauszus

Kristian Sloth Lauszus — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:05:46 +0000

Hi
I’m from Denmark too, but I will type in english, as it might be a help to others

Why do you use ‘Man’ in the following line:
$objHTTP.setRequestHeader(‘Man’, ‘POST’ + ‘ ‘ + $SoapServer + ‘ HTTP/1.1′)

If you look at this page:
https://www.bibob.dk/SmsSender.asmx?op=SendMessage
You will se that only need to add the following:
POST /SmsSender.asmx HTTP/1.1

Is ‘Man’ some kine of build in function for powershell?

The reason why I’m asking, is that I’m trying to port i to c#

Best Reagards
Kristian Lauszus

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Peter Williams

Peter Williams — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:05:40 +0000

I’ve got it working, with an archived pst file anyway. I didn’t need to run PowerShell as an administrator. Now to figure out how to run the script on my ost mailbox file, this doesn’t work at the moment.

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Xenophane

Xenophane — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:49:21 +0000

Hi Peter
I have seen this error before, when for some reason Outlook did not think it had a connection to exchange..

Try to make sure Outlook is connected, and the run the below line.

$olApp = new-object -com Outlook.Application

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Peter Williams

Peter Williams — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:35:24 +0000

Yes I realised this and so I went to Mark Minasi’s web site and copied the script from there instead. When I copy and paste this I get a different error, well several actually. Here’s the first.

PS C:\Windows\system32> $olApp = new-object -com Outlook.Application

New-Object : Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {0006F03A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80080005.
At line:1 char:20
+ $olApp = new-object <<<< -com Outlook.Application
+ CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [New-Object], COMException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoCOMClassIdentified,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Xenophane

Xenophane — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:27:23 +0000

Hi Peter

I think your issue might be that, some browsers tend to screw up the formatting when you copy/paste from the website.
What I would do, is copy to clipboard.. Then paste into a a text editor, that supports different kinds of line breaks (Not notepad),Powershell ISE, PowerGUI,Notepad++, PSPad any real editor actually.

That should format the text correctly, then copy paste it from there into, powershell.

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Peter Williams

Peter Williams — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:53:16 +0000

I can’t get this script to work, which is a shame as I have a mail folder with >1000 empty folders to be deleted. I copied the script to the clipboard and then ran PowerShell as an adminsitrator. I pasted the script from the clipboard into PowerShell and then pressed Enter to run the script. The result was “You cannot call a method on a null valued expression. At line :1 char:77.

What am I doing wrong please?

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Script to delete empty folders in outlook « Steve on Security

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Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Xenophane

Xenophane — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:18:57 +0000

Luis Sorry about the late reply, have been quite busy.

First of all you need to have Windows Powershell installed on your computer.
If you are running Windows 7, it is allread part of the OS, otherwise you will have to download it..
Google Windows Powershell 2.0 and your Operating System (XP, Vista or whatever)
Then run the powershell console (Like a DOS windows, black screen, where you can type in text)
Hover your mouse over the first script, 4 icons will appear in the upper right corner, click on the 2 from left (Copy to Clipboard)

Then paste the result into your Powershell console window.