Using the Outlook Extension with Email Archival

Email Archive users can perform simple searches directly through Outlook. The Search Archive field appears on the Outlook ribbon in the AMS tab:

Using Outlook to Search Archives

Type search terms in the text field and hit the ENTER key.

Your Email Archive is accessed (you don’t have to log in) and a web browser is started to display the results.

When conducting a simple search:

• Choose your keywords wisely. Select specific, descriptive words.
• Searches provide "stemming," which searches for words with the same root.
• For example, if you type project the search also matches the words projected, projecting, projector, and projects. If you type mouse, the search also finds words like mice and mouser.
• To search for an exact match (literal search), enclose the term in double quotation marks. For example, if you type “mouse”, the search finds only the word mouse.
• For example, if you type “financial report” the search matches that exact phrase, but if you type financial report (without the double-quotes) the search matches any instance of “financial” or “report”, whether the words appear together or separately, in any order, in the same document or in different documents.

See the Outlook Extension Search help topic for more information on searching the AMS Archive Store directly.