Understanding Outlook Search & Exchange Search with Special characters and substrings
Understanding Search queries with special characters is always important.
Searching a Special character – Let say the Subject contains “How are you ?” you search “?”
Understanding Search of substrings is also important
Searching a Substring – Let say the Subject Contains “Testtrick1” you search “Trick1”
1.When Outlook is in Online mode it uses the Exchange Search
2.When Outlook is in Cache mode it uses the Desktop Search otherwise called as Instant search
1. When Outlook is in Online mode it uses the Exchange Search
Searching a Special Character alone does not search in Exchange 2003,2007,2010
For Example “Subject: Do you have 10$”
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Searching for a Special Character “$” Does not give us appropriate Results
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Whole String 10$ Searches it
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But Searching for 0$ – Substring does not work
Some Examples – subject is “Exchange2010?” – Searching for “2010?” substring does not work
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2.When Outlook is in Cache mode it uses the Desktop Search otherwise called as Instant search
Searching a Special Character alone does not search in Outlook 2003,2007,2010
Instant Search will ignore this special characters as the index of Instant Search is word-based only
For the same example “Subject: Do you have 10$” having Outlook in Cache Mode
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Searching for a Special Character “$” Does not give us appropriate Results
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Whole String 10$ Searches it
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But Searching for 0$ – Substring does not work
Some Examples – subject is “Exchange2010?” – Searching for “2010?” substring does not work
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This how its designed to give out better search results instantly !!
Regards
Satheshwaran Manoaharan