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Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Xenophane

Xenophane — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:33:05 +0000

Cool Damon

Thank you for posting your findings.

–Claus

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Damon

Damon — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:28:04 +0000

Just thought I'd post an update, in case someone else finds themselves in my situation. I did work it out. In my case, I changed $RootFolders = $namespace.Folders | ?{$_.name -match $RootfolderToMatch} to $RootFolders = $namespace.Folders | ?{$_.name -like $RootfolderToMatch} This selected only the mailbox folder for me. You could also add a | and a -notmatch "Public Folders", but I had inconsistent results. I then had to add several more exceptions to the system folders list, shown here.


	  # I have had to check for system folders, these cannot be deleted via the script, so to prevent the script for erroring out, I check for it.
    if ($fldr.name -match "Slettet" -or $fldr.name -match "Deleted" -or $fldr.name -match "journal" -or $fldr.name -match "rss"`
	    -or $fldr.name -match "note" -or $fldr.name -match "kalender" -or $fldr.name -match "kontakt" -or $fldr.name -match "udbakke" `
		-or $fldr.name -match "Sync" -or $fldr.name -match "Server" -or $fldr.name -match "contacts" `
        -or $fldr.name -match "Suggested Contacts" -or $fldr.name -match "Server Failures" -or $fldr.name -match "Local Failures" `
        -or $fldr.name -match "Drafts" -or $fldr.name -match "Junk E-Mail" -or $fldr.name -match "Quick Step Settings" `
        -or $fldr.name -match "Conversation Action Settings" -or $fldr.name -match "News Feed" -or $fldr.name -match "Outbox" ) 
      {"Cannot delete systemfolder :  """ + $fldr.FolderPath + ""

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Damon

Damon — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:01:58 +0000

Ah, I think I’m on to something. We still have public folders, which is causing the RootfolderToMatch to match with two folder names. Unfortunately I can’t eliminate the public folders at this time. I’ll keep at it and see if I can’t figure something out.

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Damon

Damon — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:04:33 +0000

Thank you, I will check out Glenn’s post. You have been most helpful.

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Xenophane

Xenophane — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:37:39 +0000

Have you seen this by Glenn Scales

http://gsexdev.blogspot.dk/2013/01/cleaning-out-skeletons-in-your-mailbox.html

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Xenophane

Xenophane — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:00:46 +0000

Sorry for the late reply, I do not currently have a script to do it from Exchange, but you would have to look into EWS to get it done..

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Xenophane

Xenophane — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:59:45 +0000

I just tested this on my Windows 8 machine running Outlook 2013 (Sorry do not have access to 2010 right now)

What I did:

$olApp = new-object -com Outlook.Application
$namespace = $olApp.GetNamespace(“MAPI”)

Then I ran $Namespace.Folders | select name to find the name of “root folder” that I wanted the script to run against.
In this example it is my main Exchange account, which is represented by my full name.

So to try it out I changed $RootfolderToMatch = “Inbox” to $RootfolderToMatch = “My Full Name”

–Claus

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by Damon

Damon — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:38:45 +0000

Great script, works well on Archive folders (PST Files). My only issue is I can’t get it to work with Outlook 2010 and an Exchange account. I suspect it has to do with the fact that Outlook 2010 displays all Exchange mailboxes as the user’s primary SMTP address, and the “user@company.com” format is confounding the Powershell engine.

Any ideas on a workaround? I can’t seem to find one on my own.

Comment on My account keeps getting locked out, where did I use it ?? by Thomas Chandler

Thomas Chandler — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:59:46 +0000

I am running the script and I get the following, was hoping someone could help:

The Term ‘Get-QADRootDSE.domain is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, fucntion, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 Char:38
+ $gsprecision = (Get-QADRootDSE.domain <<<.Domain.ToString
+Category Info :ObjectNotFound: (Get-!ADRottDES.domain:String> [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorID :CommandNotFoundException

thank you.

Comment on Deleting empty folders in Outlook by swiep

swiep — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:03:13 +0000

Hello Xenophane,

Do you have a variation of this script that can be run on the Exchange server instead of a workstation so that it can be scheduled on a weekly basis?
We use the archiving feature and that leaves empty folders in the original mailbox.