Purging TotalDeletedItemSize Exchange Online

One of the mailboxes used in the environment for ticketing was unable to fetch and delete emails in a specific mailbox. Upon further investigation, it was found that the TotalDeletedItemSize was around 26 GB.

Get-Mailbox username |Get-MailboxStatistics |fl *Delete*

As this mailbox didn’t require single item recovery , it was disabled using the below command.

Get-Mailbox username |Set-Mailbox -SingleItemRecoveryEnabled $false

It takes 60 mins to take into effect the change.After an hour the below command was executed to purge the recovery items.

Search-Mailbox username -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent

The purge gradually deleted the items. And the mailbox was back to normal in receiving meeting requests.

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