Excahange 2007 Need to permanently delete all emails older than x years

Cant get to the 2007 forum so don't know if this is the right place.
Trying to permanently delete all mail older than 4 years from our Exchange 2007 server. I have worked with Powershell in 2010 (Exchange)
but I cannot run due to some restrictions with 32/64 bit powershell limitations in exchange 2007.
I have searched google and these forums -- there has to be an easy way to do this or someone that can point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance

Hi,
In Exchange 2007, you can use the following cmdlet to delete emails older than the mentioned date from a mailbox.
Export-Mailbox -Identity xxx -StartDate "xx/xx/xxxx" -EndDate "xx/xx/xxxx" -DeleteContent
If you need to perform this on a set of mailboxes, paste all display names to a TXT file, name is as "test.txt". Run the following cmdlet.
Get-Content test.txt | Export-Mailbox -StartDate "xx/xx/xxxx" -EndDate "xx/xx/xxxx" –DeleteContent –Maxthreads 4
Hope this can be helpful to you.
Best regards,
Amy Wang
TechNet Community Support

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