Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zainal Arifin

Thottam Sriram

Anupama Janardhan

Julian Zbogar Smith

Kameshwar Jayaraman

John D Fan

Michal Krzysztof Piaseczny

Ramanathan Somasundaram

Jessica Anne Alspaugh

Bradley Stevenson

Tudor Baraboi

Graham Lee McMynn

Ashish Shrikrishna Malgi

Adam David Harmetz

Quentin Gary Christensen

Carlos David Argott Hernandez

Benjamin Joseph Rinaca

Fan Mao

Sanjay H Ramaswamy

Julian Alexander Zbogar-Smith

Yingtao Dong

Hardik Solanki

Nanda Raghunathan

Sean W Ferguson

Thottam R Sriram

Technologies are described herein for locating relevant content items across multiple disparate content sources. Query parameters are received from a user interface for defining a query for searching a number of content sources located on multiple, disparate content servers. A native search is executed on each of the content servers based on the received query parameters, and query statistics and other data regarding content items in the content sources matching the query parameters are received. The query statistics are aggregated across the content servers and presented in the user interface. The presentation of the query statistics may be broken out by each content source, by each query phrase segmented from the query, and the like. In addition, a preview of a number of content items matching the query parameters is presented based on the data received.

Locating relevant content items across multiple disparate content sources

One or more indirect recipients of a communication item within a communication management application (CMA) may be preserved in-place. Indirect recipients include individual recipients within a distribution list (DL) via TO, carbon copy (CC), and/or blind carbon copy (BCC) fields of the communication item. At time of submission of the communication item, the CMA in conjunction with an assistant service may expand the DL to retrieve a list of individual recipients from the DL. The DL may be expanded by querying a directory server associated with the CMA. The DL expansion list may be saved to the communication item at the CMA by updating one or more properties of the communication item according to the expansion list. The DL expansion list may then be referenced for indexing so that a discovery search may be performed in-place at the CMA if and when the search is needed.

In-place recipient preservation

Embodiments are directed to determining in an email data store which of a plurality of email mailboxes is searchable, to searching multiple mailboxes in an email data store and to preserving data items that are placed on hold. In an embodiment, a web service receives a request to determine which among many different email mailboxes is available for searching. The web service allows multiple different programs to search the email data store. The web service sends a query to the email data store to determine which email mailboxes are available for searching. The web service also returns a list of those email mailboxes which are searchable in the data store. The searchable mailboxes have an appropriate, specified version and permissions indicating that the mailbox is searchable.

Cross-platform data preservation

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