Start or Stop a Discovery Search

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

You can stop or restart a discovery search at any time. For example, if you want to modify search properties such as keywords or mailboxes searched, you must first stop a search. You can then restart the search after making the required changes.

Looking for other management tasks related to search? Check out Managing Multi-Mailbox Search.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the 'Multi-Mailbox Search' entry in Messaging Policy and Compliance Permissions topic.

This example stops the search Discovery-ProjectContoso

Stop-MailboxSearch -Name "Discovery-ProjectContoso"

This example starts the stopped search Discovery-ProjectContoso.

Start-MailboxSearch -Name "Discovery-ProjectContoso"

For detailed parameter and syntax information, see Start-MailboxSearch and Stop-MailboxSearch.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the 'Multi-Mailbox Search' entry in Messaging Policy and Compliance Permissions topic.

  1. Navigate to My Organization > Reporting > Mailbox Searches.
  2. To stop a search that's in progress, select the search, and then click the Stop Search icon.
  3. To start a search that was stopped, select the search, and then click the Restart Search icon. A warning appears, stating that the existing search will be removed from the target mailbox. Click Yes.

Other Tasks

After you start a discovery search, you may also want to: