Message Discovery in Exchange Server 2010

Message Discovery in Exchange Server 2010 is the new feature which enables users to search for mailboxes on the Exchange server.

In this example, we will grant the mike user rights to search the mailboxes on the Exchange server.

How to Add users in the Discovery Management role group

1. Open the Outlook Web Access by using administrator credentials.

2. Click Options.

3. Select My Organization in Select what to manage scroll menu.

4. Click on Administrator Roles.

5. Double-click on Discovery Management role group.

6. Click Add under Members tab.

7. Select the desired user (mike, in our case) and click Ok and then Save.

How to Search Items in the Outlook Web Access

1. Open the Outlook Web Access by using mike credentials.

2. Click Options.

3. Select My Organization in Select what to manage scroll menu.

4. Click Reporting under Users & Groups.

5. Click on New in Multi-Mailbox Search option.

6. Enter any keyword relevant for your search, like disabled.

7. You can also select “Include items that can’t be searched” checkbox which will search those messages that are encrypted by the RMS.

8. You can also set message types to be searched, like message To and From, date ranges and so on. And also you can specify the Search name

9. Click on Send me an e-mail when the search is done checkbox and Enable logging checkbox.

10. Click on Save once done.

11. Navigate to your Inbox to check the Search e-mail.