Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

This is part one of a two part post where I'm going to look at how you can migrate any searches you are doing in EWS to the Graph API. In this first part I'm going to cover SearchFilters (from EWS) and Search-Folders as they have been around the longest and in part 2 I'll look at Searches which has  some new functionality in beta in the Graph. Lets start by looking at how you might be doing searches in EWS at the moment Search Filters (restrictions) in a FindItem Request that can be run against a Folder or Search Folder QueryString (KQL) in a FindItem Request that can be run against a Folder or Search Folder SearchFolder with a FindItem Request eDiscovery via SearchMailbox which has now been depreciated in Office 365 and no longer supported Search Filters (Restrictions) If you have used the EWS Managed API to build your application you use the SearchFilter class which creates a underlying restriction in EWS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-de...

While the Search-Mailbox cmdlet is now depreciated in Exchange Online, OnPrem its still used a fair bit and also does still have some use in the cloud for specific tasks. I've been using it this week a fair bit for various testing tasks and one pain I found when doing a lot of repeated searches in logging mode is each time to have to go in, open the results message in the discovery search mailbox and download the attachment with the log file, unzip and open it in Excel. So I came up with a way of automating this in powershell which turned out to be pretty simple but effective. First off the only information you need to get the Results Message gets returned in the Target Folder property of the Search results eg.  The TargetFolder value tells you what folder in the discovery Search mailbox the results are stored in and the DateTime value that will be in the subject of the Results Message. So in EWS you can use FindFolder to Find that Folder (using a Split on "\" wh...