New-MailboxSearch creates a folder hierarchy of all mailboxes in Exchange Server 2010

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    Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise, Exchange Server 2010 Standard

Original KB number:  2846860

Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:

  • You use the New-MailboxSearch cmdlet to create a mailbox search in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 organization.

  • You run the cmdlet with the ExcludeDuplicateMessages parameter.

  • The ExcludeDuplicateMessages parameter is set to false.

  • You do the search across all the mailboxes in the organization.

    Note

    The searches are performed across all mailbox servers in the Exchange organization unless you specify the SourceMailboxes parameter.

In this scenario, the New-MailboxSearch cmdlet creates a folder hierarchy of all the mailboxes that match the search criteria in the target mailbox.

Screenshot for the folder hierarchy of all the matched mailboxes.

Cause

This behavior is by design.

More information

If the ExcludeDuplicateMessages parameter is set to False, the New-MailboxSearch cmdlet returns a list of all mailboxes that match the search criteria. To prevent a folder hierarchy of all the mailboxes that match the search criteria in the target mailbox from being created, set the ExcludeDuplicateMessages parameter to true. For example:

New-MailboxSearch -Name "NewSearch" -SearchQuery '"Team meet"' -TargetMailbox "administrator" -ExcludeDuplicateMessages:$True -LogLevel:Full

Note

The SearchQuery parameter specifies a search string or a query that's formatted by using Advance Query Syntax (AQS). If this parameter is empty, all messages from all mailboxes that are specified in the SourceMailboxes parameter are returned.

The LogLevel parameter is used to log the search results to CSV files. The CSV files will contain the list of mailboxes that match the search criteria. The CSV file will be created multiple times as the search is in progress, and each CSV file will be delivered in a separate email message.