Hi, I am trying the delete litigation hold from several thousand Office 365 accounts. I have a .csv that only has one column and it contains the email addresses of those that I want to remove litigation hold from. I was trying to use this script Connect-ExchangeOnline $csv=Import-CSV -Path "C:\Litcsv.csv" ForEach ($user in $csv) { Set-Mailbox $user | Where-Object { $_.LitigationHoldEnabled -eq $True } |Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $False } However I am getting this error: Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

The first cmdlet should be Get-Mailbox , not Set-Mailbox Get-Mailbox $user | Where-Object { $_.LitigationHoldEnabled -eq $True } |Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $False

Remove litigation hold using PowerShell

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Vasil Michev 113.2K Reputation points MVP

2024-01-22T16:37:10.93+00:00
The first cmdlet should be Get-Mailbox, not Set-Mailbox

Get-Mailbox $user | Where-Object { $_.LitigationHoldEnabled -eq $True } |Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $False
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Barry Hart 20 Reputation points

2024-01-23T18:03:02.71+00:00

I edited my script to this as suggested:
Connect-ExchangeOnline
$csv=Import-CSV -Path "C:\Litcsv.csv"
ForEach ($user in $csv)
{
Get-Mailbox $user | Where-Object { $_.LitigationHoldEnabled -eq $True } |Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $False
} But I am getting a similar error. The CategoryInfo before said Set-Mailbox but the error now says Get-Mailbox.

Write-ErrorMessage : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'Identity'. Cannot convert value "" to type "Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.MailboxIdParameter". Error: "Parameter values of type Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.MailboxIdParameter can't be empty. Specify a value, and try again. Parameter name: identity" At C:\Users\**********\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpEXO_1hmnkarp.23q\tmpEXO_1hmnkarp.23q.psm1:1192 char:13 + Write-ErrorMessage $ErrorObject + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-Mailbox], ParameterTransformationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=YQBPR0101MB5832,RequestId=fa152fe7-18c8-859d-37a2-97702d223a75,TimeStamp=Tue , 23 Jan 2024 17:46:09 GMT],Write-ErrorMessage

Barry Hart 20 Reputation points

2024-01-23T18:04:16.95+00:00

Snippet of my .csv file:

Vasil Michev 113.2K Reputation points MVP

2024-01-23T18:26:20.5733333+00:00

Apologies, I missed the variable:

Get-Mailbox $user.user | Where-Object { $_.LitigationHoldEnabled -eq $True } |Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $False

Barry Hart 20 Reputation points

2024-01-23T19:07:12.25+00:00

Thanks @Vasil Michev this worked great! I appreciate your time to look at it.

Kael Yao-MSFT 37,691 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-01-24T01:44:25.7866667+00:00

Hi @Barry Hart, If the question has been answered, please accept the helpful reply as the answer to help other community members. Thanks for your understanding.
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