exchange 2010/13 - search mails by category and set them to sensitivity:private

Question

I am new to Exchange and we have a requirement where we need to go thru everyones mailbox and look for emails that have been marked by a certain category and set those emails as sensitivity:private. And I have couple of questions on this one:

Not sure which one is the way to achieve this, should I be using Exchange Management Console - PowerShell script OR Exchange Web Services?
does anyone have a snippet of searching emails by category and manipulating/editing the email sensitivity to Private?

Thanks Steve

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '13 at 07:54

You can use AQS in combination with Exchange Web Services to query by category.

  ItemView iv = new ItemView(1000);
  String AQS = "System.Category:red OR System.Category:green";
  FindItemsResults<Item> fiItems = null;
  do
  {
    fiItems = service.FindItems(WellKnownFolderName.Calendar, AQS, iv);
    foreach (Item itItem in fiItems.Items) {
      Console.WriteLine(itItem.Subject);
    }
    iv.Offset += fiItems.Items.Count;
  } while (fiItems.MoreAvailable == true);

See also:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/e297b09d-0a69-4a62-8da1-12084df9265f/searchfilter-for-categories-exchange-2010-sp1-ews-managed-api-11?forum=exchangesvrdevelopment

To set the Sensitivity, use the item.Sensitivity property and then save the item:

  item.Sensitivity = Sensitivity.Private;
  item.Save();

exchange 2010/13 - search mails by category and set them to sensitivity:private

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