Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

In this example, we used the New-ComplianceSearch cmdlet to run an organization-wide search. The -ExchangeLocation parameter specifies a distribution group, a single mailbox, or all mailboxes to include in the compliance search. Then we use the -ContentMatchQuery parameter to specify our content search filter using the KQL. In this case, we are searching for emails sent or received between January and July 2017 and that have a subject with the phrase project x.

Next, we start the actual search by using the Start-ComplianceSearch cmdlet. Once the search starts, we can track its progress by running Get-ComplianceSearch. When it completes, we can easily check how many items our search criteria matched, and on which mailboxes: ...