I am testing being able to search the dumpster and restore email. I can search a user's mailbox without the "-searchquery" option, but not matter what I put in the "-searchquery" it always fails. Here is what I get every time. I have rebuilt the database indexes too. this is driving me crazy. Search Failed on mailbox 'domain\username\c8f1ff17-1740-4f5f-90c9-575bd8ae4760'. If the search query used sh ort words with wildcard(s) such as pat*, it can result in a large number of words or phrases because all permutations o f words starting with "pat" are searched. Make search queries as specific as possible when using wildcards. + CategoryInfo : ReadError: (0:Int32) [Search-Mailbox], SearchMailboxException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 96277B61,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.SearchMailboxNetwork Touch

Hi NetworkToch, Could you please post the cmdlets you run, and we could do more research about it. About advanced Query Syntax when you use the parameter searchquery: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232132.aspx#AQS Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

This is the command I have been running. [PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\scripts>search-mailbox username -searchquery "R3C0v3ry T3st" -searchdumpsteronly -targetmailbox username2 -targetfolder usernametest' It was failing with the following error. I could run it without the "-searchquery" option and it would give results. Anything with "-searchquery" gave the following error. Search Failed on mailbox 'domain\username\55183f99-70b2-464e-9649-9d561aaddd92'. If the search query used short w ords with wildcard(s) such as pat*, it can result in a large number of words or phrases because all permutations of wor ds starting with "pat" are searched. Make search queries as specific as possible when using wildcards. + CategoryInfo : ReadError: (0:Int32) [Search-Mailbox], SearchMailboxException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 4DE8F735,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.SearchMailbox I have more info now. We do have a dag setup. I could not run this command yesterday, but after we failed the databases over to another site (testing), then I could run the command successfully. I am assuming because the indexes might not working correctly on certain databases at the primary site? Is that possible? How do indexes work in a dag environment? Is each database indexed separately or are the indexes replicated just like the databases are? How do I reindex databases in a dag environment? Can you provide setup-by-step? If you don't think the indexes are the problem, then what else could it be? When we fail back over to the primary site next week I will try the search-mailbox again to see if it works. any ideas?Network Touch

Hi Network Touch, Per your description, the database index seems has some issue, about how to check it, please refer to below: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123701.aspx About how to rebuild it, please refer to below: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee633475.aspx Understanding the exchange search: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232132.aspx If you have new update, please post here, we could do more research about it. Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.