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Sinnatagen57 - 29 Mar 2006 20:53 GMT

Is it possibel to conduct boolean searches of my Excahnge 2003 server from
the server rather than on individual mailboxes. I have to comply with a
subpoena to product all electronic documents pertaining to key words. I can
do this obviously in my data directories but on the email server its not
quite so obvious to me.

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Henning Krause [MVP] - 29 Mar 2006 22:24 GMT

Hello,

I'm not sure if I understand your question. You want to search an entire
Exchange server for emails with specific keywords?

There is nothing you can do to search the entire store at once.... you must
search each mailbox separately. You can however automate this using WebDAV
for example. Another option is to use MAPI: Use temporary profiles, logon to
each mailbox, and search the folders in that mailbox.

Perhaps you could clarify your question.

Greetings,
Henning Krause

> Is it possibel to conduct boolean searches of my Excahnge 2003 server from
> the server rather than on individual mailboxes. I have to comply with a
> subpoena to product all electronic documents pertaining to key words. I
> can
> do this obviously in my data directories but on the email server its not
> quite so obvious to me.

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Sinnatagen57 - 30 Mar 2006 00:56 GMT

Correct, I'd like to search an entire store for keywords, i.e. "Local 38" AND
"Konocti" AND "Smith" and so on. If possible I'd like to setup one string of
words to search for and hit all mailboxes since I am unable to do it via the
data store.

I'd alos like to do it in an automated fashion as I suspect this could take
quite a bit of time to conduct the search. Any KB article or direction you
can point me in would be appreciated.

> Hello,
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Henning Krause [MVP] - 30 Mar 2006 09:13 GMT

Hello,

as I said, you must do this mailbox by mailbox.

You can use WebDAV to accomplish your task, but it's quite complicated.

To enumerate all users, you must first get a list of all users who actually
have a mailbox (see http://www.infinitec.de/exchange/howtos/getgal.aspx).

Foreach entry you got in the last process, do the following:
Then, build the mailbox url
(http://www.infinitec.de/exchange/howtos/getmailboxurl.aspx).

To search one mailbox, see the Exchange SDK
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_exch2k_search_tasks.asp)

Greetings,
Henning Krause [MVP]

> Correct, I'd like to search an entire store for keywords, i.e. "Local 38"
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Sinnatagen57 - 30 Mar 2006 19:07 GMT

Thank ypu. I'll give it a try.

> Hello,
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