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Recently I ran across a scenario where a company had migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 and noticed that their Search functionality was behaving differently. They, like most, used their email as a major component of their business. Work orders would come into their mailboxes and they would use Search to find and manage the flood of inbound emails. Each email would have a subject pattern that was somewhat predictable based on their work ordering numbering scheme. When they would search they would search for their portion of the code. This portion was not always the first portion of the string of characters. When using Exchange 2003 this worked great. Once they moved to Exchange 2007, they got inconsistent results. Why? Answer

I have a few posts coming on Exchange 2007 Search, but in the mean time I am posting a gathering of links from around the Microsoft Net. These links are a good beginning to understanding Exchange 2007 Search. If you are interested in Exchange 2007 Search and Content Indexing, this list should help you get familiarized.

How to Diagnose Exchange Search Issues - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123701(EXCHG.80).aspx?track=cc_exchange_sync

How to Disable or Enable Exchange Search - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996416.aspx

How to Rebuild the Full-Text Index Catalog - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995966(EXCHG.80).aspx

Indexing Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders - http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2008/06/06/indexing-exchange-server-2007-public-folders.aspx

Managing Exchange Search - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998289.aspx

Understanding Client Throttling - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540454.aspx

Understanding Exchange Search - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232132(EXCHG.80).aspx

Exchange Search FAQ - http://www.exchangeninjas.com/ExchangeSearchFAQ

Exchange Server 2007 Cross Mailbox Search using Export-mailbox - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/12/18/431934.aspx

The new Search in Exchange Server 2007 - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/11/429163.aspx

944516 How to register Filter Pack IFilters with Exchange Server 2007 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;944516

945077 The Outlook Web Access search function does not work for some users in Exchange 2007 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;945077