I'm trying to search for messages that include "###" on the subject. I'm checking the AQS documentation but can't see how to escape characters. I've tried quoting, double quoting, but nothing seems to work.
Exchange 2010 Search-Mailbox SearchQuery with ### on the subject
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This is a little late but I've run into the same issues and found this to be helpful and pertain to the issues. https://superuser.com/questions/168638/trouble-trying-to-use-windows-search-to-search-for-file-with-a-question-mark-in.
In summary to the link above. The search seems to ignore the special characters and searches based on words only.
I've tested by sending two separate emails with the subjects, "Having ### in subject" and "Having in subject"
The query I constructed looks like -SearchQuery "Subject:`"Having ### in subject`""
The search using this query yielded 2 results finding both subjects which did ignore the '###' all together. This also seems to hold true even when symbols are part of the word such as queries like "Having### in subject" and "Having###in subject".
If you are single using single quotes in the subject then you would escape the query like: -SearchQuery "Subject:'Having ### in subject'" but this too ignores the symbols and will return results for both subjects "Having ### in subject" and "Having in subject".