Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2012-07-23

In Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, you can use Multi-Mailbox Search to create a discovery search. You can remove a discovery search at any time. When you remove a discovery search, search results are removed from the discovery mailbox.

Looking for other management tasks related to Multi-Mailbox Search? Check out Managing Discovery.

Use the Shell to remove a discovery search

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Multi-Mailbox Search" entry in the Messaging Policy and Compliance Permissions topic.

Note:
You can't use the EMC to remove a discovery search.

This example removes the discovery search Discovery-ProjectContoso.

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Remove-MailboxSearch "Discovery-ProjectContoso"

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Remove-MailboxSearch.

Use the Exchange Control Panel to remove a discovery search

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Multi-Mailbox Search" entry in the Messaging Policy and Compliance Permissions topic.

  1. Navigate to My Organization > Reporting > Mailbox Searches.

  2. Select the search you want to remove, and then click Remove icon.

Other Tasks

After you remove a discovery search, you may also want to create a discovery search. For detailed steps, see Create a Discovery Search.