How to remove items from Teams mailbox using PowerShell.

Question

Hi,

Just recently when one person requested email removal, New-ComplianceSearch found some elements not only in user mailboxes but also in one teams mailbox. I tried to run compliancesarch action "Purge" but it did not delete the messages from teams mailbox, waited like 7 days - messages are still there. As this is Teams mailbox - I cannot use Search-Mailbox -DeleteContent for this, so... any idea how to remove such items centrally?

Answer 1

Hi @Pawel Jarosz

I tried to run compliancesarch action "Purge" but it did not delete the messages from teams mailbox, waited like 7 days - messages are still there.

How many items would you like to remove from the Teams mailbox?
Please note that the New-ComplianceSearchAction cmdlet is not intended for bulk remove messages and would only remove 10 items one time.

If you have many items to remove, you may need to repeat the process in this link:
Use Security & Compliance Center PowerShell to delete items from the Recoverable Items folder for mailboxes that aren't placed on hold or don't have single item recovery enabled

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If it is possible, another workaround would be having the owner of this M365 group manually remove the items in OWA/Outlook.

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