People Search result scoping

Question

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?

Answer 1

• 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

Answer 2

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.