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Message properties indexed by Exchange Search

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2013

Exchange Search indexes many item properties, including sender, recipients, message body, and attachments for email messages.

The following table includes a list of all item properties indexed by Exchange Search.

Property Type Queryable Searchable Retrievable
Account String Yes Yes No
Assistantname String Yes Yes No
Attachment String Yes Yes No
Attachmentfilenames String Yes Yes No
Attachmentmetaproperties String No Yes No
Attachmentcount Integer No No Yes
Bcc String Yes Yes No
Body String Yes Yes No
Businessaddress String Yes Yes No
Businessmainphone String Yes Yes No
Businessphonenumber String Yes Yes No
Carphonenumber String Yes Yes No
Category String Yes Yes No
Cc String Yes Yes No
Companyname String Yes Yes No
Compositeitemid String No No Yes
Conversationid Integer No No Yes
Conversationtopic String Yes Yes No
Departmentname String Yes Yes No
Displayname String Yes Yes No
Displaynameprefix String Yes Yes No
Documentid Integer Yes No Yes
Emailaddress String Yes Yes No
Emaildisplayname String Yes Yes No
Emailoriginaldisplayname String Yes Yes No
Errorcode Integer Yes No Yes
Fileas String Yes Yes No
Firstname String Yes Yes No
Folderid String Yes No No
From String Yes Yes No
Homeaddress String Yes Yes No
Homephone String Yes Yes No
Importance Integer Yes No No
Ispartiallyprocessed Boolean Yes No Yes
Ispermanentfailure Boolean Yes No Yes
Itemclass String Yes No No
Kind String Yes Yes No
Lastattempttime DateTime Yes No Yes
Lastname String Yes Yes No
Mailboxguid String Yes No Yes
Manager String Yes Yes No
Meetinglocation String Yes Yes No
Middlename String Yes Yes No
Mobilephonenumber String Yes Yes No
Nickname String Yes Yes No
Officelocation String Yes Yes No
Otheraddress String Yes Yes No
Participants String Yes Yes No
Primarytelephonenumber String Yes Yes No
Received DateTime Yes No No
Receivedby String Yes Yes No
Receivedrepresenting String Yes Yes No
Recipients String Yes Yes No
Sent DateTime Yes No No
Sharinginfo String Yes No No
Size Integer Yes No No
Subject String Yes Yes No
Tasktitle String Yes Yes No
Title String Yes Yes No
To String Yes Yes No
Umaudionotes String Yes Yes No
Watermark Integer No No Yes
Yomicompanyname String Yes No Yes
Yomifirstname String Yes Yes No
Yomilastname String Yes Yes No

Notes about indexed properties:

  • Queryable properties can be used in AQS queries by search clients such as Outlook Web App in property:value pairs, for example, from:[email protected]. A subset of the queryable properties listed in the previous table can also be used in search queries for In-Place eDiscovery. For a list of these properties, see In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange 2013.

  • Searchable properties are properties that can't be specified in property:value pairs, but a keyword search returns the value if found in any searchable property. For example, you can't use body:Contoso to search for the string contoso in the message body only. However, a search for that string will return all items where the property is found in any searchable property.

  • Retrievable properties such as documenteid and ispartiallyprocessed are returned with every search.