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I have a server farm for three organisations (unfortunately they are all sharing the same user profile service app). There are three web apps with site collections (one web app with a site coll per org).

When we do a people search results from other organisations are displayed on the people search. Unfortunately we cannot use the organisation to filter the search results as everyone is a member of the same org in AD.

Is there a way to filter search results by the email address (i.e. from @ onwards)? if so how?

If not, is there an alternative way to achieve a people search that only returns people within a specific org based on their email address?

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  • Navigate to the people search results
  • Click on site actions
  • Click on edit page
  • Edit the People Search Core results web part
  • Expand the Results Query options section
  • Enter the text WorkEmail:”*org1.com” in Append Text to query
  • Click ok
  • Save & close the page
  • Publish the page
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  • SharePoint doesn't support prefix wildcards, this won't work.
    – Matthew McDermott
    Dec 9, 2014 at 2:20
  • it seems to be working - has it been changed in later service packs for 2010? I guess i could try just changing it to WorkEmail:"org1.com" to see if I get the same results.
    – Mauro
    Dec 9, 2014 at 8:32
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    Interesting, the second query WorkEmail:"org1.com" is a contains query and may work. I still prefer using company as it is unambiguous.
    – Matthew McDermott
    Dec 10, 2014 at 11:30
  • Yeah - like I said I would normally prefer that too but unfortunately AD is unlikely to get tidied up enough to be able to rely on that.
    – Mauro
    Dec 10, 2014 at 13:23
  • Remember, you can edit the properties in the User Profile Service too. For example you could use PowerShell to tidy up.
    – Matthew McDermott
    Dec 10, 2014 at 21:33
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You could add the Company AD property to the import from AD into the User Profiles and then create a scope based on that attribute. Any attribute will work for creating the scope but I have found Company works well in scenarios like yours.

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  • This is normally what I would do, but AD is a mess and needs tidied up, so for now the prefix text seems to be working.
    – Mauro
    Dec 9, 2014 at 8:33

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