Remove an email from all mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange
When I worked as an IT administrator at a large company I cringed when I saw a message like this float by:

Usually in the To field it was sent to “All Employees”. A large number of attachments work fine when everyone is directly connected to Exchange on the LAN.
The problem arises when users on a slow link far across the WAN receive the same message, and they all start trying to look at the pictures at the same time.
Boom - the remote sites are all very slow, or totally down. All because everyone wants to see if they can catch someone doing something bad at the company party.
So when you see a message like this, and need to act fast - say remove that message from all mailboxes ASAP. How do you do it?
Strangely enough, this can be accomplished by using the ExMerge utility for Exchange.
It can be downloaded from here
I say strangely, because normally you would use this utility to move mailboxes to another exchange server. It is packed with features, and we…
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Written by Steve Wiseman on October 15th, 2007 with no comments.
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