RSS feeds in Outlook is a nice feature that was added in Outlook, but for some organizations it may not be a desirable feature. While you can't delete the RSS Feeds folder itself as its on of Outlooks default folders you can easily remove each of the feeds and items from these folders using EWS's Empty folder operation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchange/ff797574(v=exchg.80).aspx. A couple of months back I posted a Language independent way of getting the RSS feeds folder using the PidTagAdditionalRenEntryIdsEx property http://gsexdev.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/using-pidtagadditionalrenentryidsex.html . This script can be easily modified to Empty the RSSFeeds folder eg the following script binds to the RSS Feeds folder and use the Empty Operation with the parameter to also delete all sub folders under the RSS Feeds Folder. - I've put a download of this script here.
- ## Get the Mailbox to Access from the 1st commandline argument
- $MailboxName = $args[0]
- ## Load Managed API dll
- Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\1.2\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll"
- ## Set Exchange Version
- $ExchangeVersion = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeVersion]::Exchange2010_SP2
- ## Create Exchange Service Object
- $service = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService($ExchangeVersion)
- ## Set Credentials to use two options are availible Option1 to use explict credentials or Option 2 use the Default (logged On) credentials
- #Credentials Option 1 using UPN for the windows Account
- $psCred = Get-Credential
- $creds = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($psCred.UserName.ToString(),$psCred.GetNetworkCredential().password.ToString())
- $service.Credentials = $creds
- #Credentials Option 2
- #service.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
- ## Choose to ignore any SSL Warning issues caused by Self Signed Certificates
- ## Code From http://poshcode.org/624
- ## Create a compilation environment
- $Provider=New-Object Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider
- $Compiler=$Provider.CreateCompiler()
- $Params=New-Object System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters
- $Params.GenerateExecutable=$False
- $Params.GenerateInMemory=$True
- $Params.IncludeDebugInformation=$False
- $Params.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.DLL") | Out-Null
- $TASource=@'
- namespace Local.ToolkitExtensions.Net.CertificatePolicy{
- public class TrustAll : System.Net.ICertificatePolicy {
- public TrustAll() {
- }
- public bool CheckValidationResult(System.Net.ServicePoint sp,
- System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate cert,
- System.Net.WebRequest req, int problem) {
- return true;
- }
- }
- }
- '@
- $TAResults=$Provider.CompileAssemblyFromSource($Params,$TASource)
- $TAAssembly=$TAResults.CompiledAssembly
- ## We now create an instance of the TrustAll and attach it to the ServicePointManager
- $TrustAll=$TAAssembly.CreateInstance("Local.ToolkitExtensions.Net.CertificatePolicy.TrustAll")
- [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::CertificatePolicy=$TrustAll
- ## end code from http://poshcode.org/624
- ## Set the URL of the CAS (Client Access Server) to use two options are availbe to use Autodiscover to find the CAS URL or Hardcode the CAS to use
- #CAS URL Option 1 Autodiscover
- $service.AutodiscoverUrl($MailboxName,{$true})
- "Using CAS Server : " + $Service.url
- #CAS URL Option 2 Hardcoded
- #$uri=[system.URI] "https://casservername/ews/exchange.asmx"
- #$service.Url = $uri
- ## Optional section for Exchange Impersonation
- #$service.ImpersonatedUserId = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ImpersonatedUserId([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ConnectingIdType]::SmtpAddress, $MailboxName)
- $PidTagAdditionalRenEntryIdsEx = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExtendedPropertyDefinition(0x36D9, [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.MapiPropertyType]::Binary)
- $psPropset = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.PropertySet([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.BasePropertySet]::FirstClassProperties)
- $psPropset.Add($PidTagAdditionalRenEntryIdsEx)
- # Bind to the NON_IPM_ROOT Root folder
- $folderid= new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderId([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::Root,$MailboxName)
- $NON_IPM_ROOT = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder]::Bind($service,$folderid,$psPropset)
- $binVal = $null;
- $AdditionalRenEntryIdsExCol = @{}
- if($NON_IPM_ROOT.TryGetProperty($PidTagAdditionalRenEntryIdsEx,[ref]$binVal)){
- $hexVal = [System.BitConverter]::ToString($binVal).Replace("-","");
- ##Parse Binary Value first word is Value type Second word is the Length of the Entry
- $Sval = 0;
- while(($Sval+8) -lt $hexVal.Length){
- $PtypeVal = $hexVal.SubString($Sval,4)
- $PtypeVal = $PtypeVal.SubString(2,2) + $PtypeVal.SubString(0,2)
- $Sval +=12;
- $PropLengthVal = $hexVal.SubString($Sval,4)
- $PropLengthVal = $PropLengthVal.SubString(2,2) + $PropLengthVal.SubString(0,2)
- $PropLength = [Convert]::ToInt64($PropLengthVal, 16)
- $Sval +=4;
- $ProdIdEntry = $hexVal.SubString($Sval,($PropLength*2))
- $Sval += ($PropLength*2)
- #$PtypeVal + " : " + $ProdIdEntry
- $AdditionalRenEntryIdsExCol.Add($PtypeVal,$ProdIdEntry)
- }
- }
- function ConvertFolderid($hexId){
- $aiItem = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.AlternateId
- $aiItem.Mailbox = $MailboxName
- $aiItem.UniqueId = $hexId
- $aiItem.Format = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.IdFormat]::HexEntryId;
- return $service.ConvertId($aiItem, [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.IdFormat]::EWSId)
- }
- #Define Function to convert String to FolderPath
- function ConvertToString($ipInputString){
- $Val1Text = ""
- for ($clInt=0;$clInt -lt $ipInputString.length;$clInt++){
- $Val1Text = $Val1Text + [Convert]::ToString([Convert]::ToChar([Convert]::ToInt32($ipInputString.Substring($clInt,2),16)))
- $clInt++
- }
- return $Val1Text
- }
- if($AdditionalRenEntryIdsExCol.ContainsKey("8001")){
- $siId = ConvertFolderid($AdditionalRenEntryIdsExCol["8001"])
- $RSSFolderID = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderId($siId.UniqueId.ToString())
- $RSSFolder = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder]::Bind($service,$RSSFolderID)
- if($RSSFolder -ne $null){
- "Deleteing : " + $RSSFolder.ChildFolderCount.ToString() + " Feeds"
- $RSSFolder.Empty([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.DeleteMode]::SoftDelete, $true);
- }
- }