The lists of accounts, mailboxes, tasks or events could be large and hard to manage. You cannot scroll past 10,000 items or rows in a view. Use the Search box above this list to look for items that match your custom criteria.

To start a search:

1. Use words, phrases, and special queries in your search.
2. Click Search to get the search results. The search is performed across all fields. You can add search criteria to the search using facet filters on the left pane.
3. Click the ✖ icon in the filter box to clear the search criteria.

TIP: Add * to the end of the search query to match all items starting with the search term. Otherwise, you will only get the exact matches. For example, john* could return John Denver, Johnson Smith, and john.denver. Search expressions are case-insensitive.

Advanced search

You can refine your results by using the advanced search operators. See Lucene Tutorial for the full information on search syntax.

To search for	Operators	Examples	Result
Part of a word	*	*serv*	Matches items containing "serv".
Exclude specified content	-, NOT (case-sensitive)	-mail* ( NOT mail*)	Excludes items that contain the word starting with “mail”.
Include specified content	+	+mail*	Matches items containing “mail” along with the basic search query.
Multiple keywords	Space, OR (case-sensitive), AND (case-sensitive)	mail user, mail OR user, mail AND user	Matches items that contain either “mail” or “user” in case of OR. Matches items that contain both “mail” and “user”. in case of AND. This is the default search behavior for phrases.
Exact phrase	Quotation marks	"item hard deleted"	Matches items that contain the exact phrase "item hard deleted".

Search by date range

You can select period or use Custom range link to specify desired data range for events.