I know the search all fields option searches all fields but I'm not sure
what check names checks by default. Create a dummy account in the AD and
put unique text in each of those fields and see what is found (it may be up
to 24 hours before outlook can find the new account).

Outlook doesn't search for partial words - A search for 'bert' will find
Bert & Bertha but not robert or ebert. If you are putting the display name
in as Robert "Bob" Smith, you need to search for "Bob" (with quotes or even
just "b), not Bob.

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"Charley Thomas" chthomas[at]tebodinme[dot]com wrote in message
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chthomas wrote on Sun, 14 February 2010 05:01
outlookmvp wrote on Thu, 11 February 2010 09:51
The nickname should be the first name field if its what the person is
called.
Thanks. Sorry for the late reply, weekend. Does this mean that oulook
only searches for firstname, lastname and alias fields by default? Is
there a way that I can put the nick name as part of Display name and
outlook searches for it from the display name? I already tried but no
success.