How to Change the Maximum Number of Search Folders per Target Folder for a Store

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If your users or custom applications use many different types of search requests (instead of repeatedly issuing the same search request), increasing the maximum number of search folders increases the search efficiency. Follow this procedure to change the maximum number of search folders per target folder for a store.

Before You Begin

There is a performance cost to implementing this procedure. Before performing these steps, you should understand this cost and its impact to your environment, and you should test this modification in a test topology. Using a test topology will allow you to simulate the load that you anticipate, and verify that this change does not adversely affect your system. See the For More Information section of this topic for links to more details about the performance cost of this modification.

Procedure

To change the maximum number of search folders per target folder for a store

  1. In ADSI Edit, expand the console tree. Right-click the store object, and then click Properties. The store objects have distinguished names similar to the following (which specify their location in the Active Directory directory service configuration tree). CN=Configuration,DC=<Domain>,CN=Services,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=<Organization>,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=<Administrative group>,CN=Servers,CN=<Server>,CN=InformationStore,CN=<Storage group>,CN=<Store>

  2. In the Attributes list on the Attribute Editor tab, click msExchMaxCachedViews, and then click Edit.

  3. In the Integer Attribute Editor dialog box, type an integer value (number of search folders), and then click OK.

  4. When replication to all domain controllers is complete, start the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service.