Hey,

We've had a few instances recently of things potentially not being forwarded on the relevant people, so I tried using Message Discovery to find them. In this case they were received in July 2013 by people who had left (but we have people monitoring their mailboxes), so they should have been forwarded to others.

The problem I am having is that Message Discovery is returning nearly 300GB of data it thinks matches my search. Even if I set the date period to 2 days (say 1 July 2013 to 2 July 2013), it returns with the same 300GB. We do not receive 150GB worth of emails every day!

I need to find emails with a particular subject and sent date. This the subject:

Your ref: 071038.00764; E&F ref: JIB/A12345ZZ; Examination report issued; Due: 12 March 2014-DC ref. DC 10707 PCT 1

Thanks

• Edited by Lanky Doodle Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:41 PM

You can use the powershell cmdlet to narrow down your search

For Example

New-MailboxSearch -Name "Legal-ProjectX" -SourceMailboxes DG-Marketing,DG-Executives -TargetMailbox LegalDiscovery@contoso.com -StartDate "01/01/2011" -EndDate "12/31/2011" -Recipients "*@contoso.com" -SearchQuery "project report hasattachments:true" -StatusMailRecipients "DG-DiscoveryTeam"

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298064%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx