In Exchange 2010, you could go to recipient configuration>mailbox and on the top of the screen filter mailboxes, groups and other items by using filters: Equals, Does Not Equal,Contains,Does not contain, Starts with, Ends with, among others. This relatively simple search feature was invaluable as an Exchange administration tool.

This functionality seems to have been removed in 2013, why? I have no idea, but can someone please tell me how I can search? I want to find all mailboxes that contain a certain keyword. Again, very easy in 2010, 2013 not so much.

And no, I do not want to use powershell to do so, it's counter intuitive to obtain a list of mailboxes and then have to go back into another screen to make modifications.

Sorry, mate. I think PowerShell is your answer. You can make a simple query like:

Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {$_.Property -like "*string*"}

You replace the word "Property" with one of these:

Get-Mailbox | Get-Member -MethodType Property

And if you really don't want to change into another screen, you can modify the settings from within PowerShell. You can follow this tutorial to find out how to use Set-Mailbox.

Things are changing and ignoring PowerShell isn't a good idea. My advice is to keep up with this trend, despite being hard.

Best regards,

Razvan Rusu

• Edited by Razvan Rusu 20 hours 28 minutes ago

This would be why I won't migrate another Email server to Exchange 2013. Sorry, but there are reasons why GUI's were invented. I've been an Exchange fan for 10 years, but crap like this is why Google and other vendors are gaining market share. I don't want to have to resort to a 3rd party program or command line in order to do my job efficiently. Powershell for ease of use is NOT efficient, I have to pipe out the results, browse through what I want, then build another powershell script just to change what I want, when before it was a few click of a mouse.

Sorry, but Powershell is not better, not by a long run.

Hi Netlander,

in ECP go to recipient - mailboxes then click on the ... icon as shown below ( you might need to click add/remove columms to fit your needs)

In new window click more and add condition to get a list of options

Hope this

Thank you Off2work, but unless you can search for a term that exists in a display name, and not starting with...that won't help. The search feature will only find mailboxes or groups that begin with a search term query, it won't search for a term that is contained inside...such as "Mail Box User"...I can search for Mail, but if you try to search for Box, you do not get any results because mailbox or display name does not start with box.