- Outlook 365 search not working after reindex update#
- Outlook 365 search not working after reindex Pc#
- Outlook 365 search not working after reindex download#
- Outlook 365 search not working after reindex windows#
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Outlook 365 search not working after reindex windows#
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Outlook 365 search not working after reindex download#
I cant see that option! If you have a retail or volume copy of Windows you may need to manually download the updates.Outlook for Microsoft 365 Outlook 2021 Outlook 2019 Outlook 2016 Outlook 2013 More.
Outlook 365 search not working after reindex update#
You should be able to update office from File > Office Account > Update eOptions > Update Now. Try Quick Repair first (you can rerun and try Online Repair if you wish afterwards) > Repair > Close. Run appwiz.cpl > Locate Microsoft Office > Change > Yes.
Note: Above it’s been set in ‘ Local‘ policy, if yours has been set by ‘ Domain‘ group policy, you will need to speak to your IT department. In fact you may not even see administrative templates. Right click Resultant Set of Policy > Generate RSoPData > Next.Īccept all the defaults (keep clicking next) > Finish.īelow, someone has disabled Indexing, (on the C drive!) You should NOT be able to see this. Run > mmc.exe > File > Add/Remove Snap-in > Resultant Set of Policy > Add > OK. My outlook Index should be in (C:\ProrgamData\Microsoft by default, Note: That’s a hidden folder so you may not see it if you try and browse to it). Here I’m going to use Resultant Set Of Policy, to show me the sum total of ALL policies being applied to make sure some doofus hasn’t disabled indexing for the drive/location. You can run winver from command line or Powershell and that will tell you, if you’re unsure).
Outlook 365 search not working after reindex Pc#
You can get a group policy enforced on you remotely by your IT admins, or on your local PC with local group policy (unless you run a ‘Home’ version of windows where there is no group policy. You can now run scanpst.exe and point it at your PST files.Ĭheck Indexing has NOT been disabled by Group Policy Open an administrative Command Window > Execute the following two commands Īfter while it should show you where scanpst.exe is, (this is still how I search for files, it’s a lot quicker) Each version of Office puts this in a different place annoyingly, but here I’ll tech you some old-school search ninja skills to find it on your PC, (this also saves me listing all the versions and locations, and having to keep updating them!)
Secondly you need to run the scanpst.exe program to scan and fix them. You can get that from their properties > Advanced > Filename. If you are using PST file(s) then firstly you need to know where it/they are. A broken or corrupt PST file can also break search/indexing. I detest PST files with a passion! Please stop using them, there’s far more efficient ways of storing old emails for those of you that simply need to keep ‘ every‘ email you’ve ever received, sent, or deleted. New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search" -Name "PreventIndexingOutlook" -Value 0 -PropertyType "DWord" New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\" -Name "Windows Search" –Force This might take a while! You can see progress, by clicking in the search box > Search Options > Indexing Status. While in this window, go to the ‘ File Types‘ tab, and ensure. If Microsoft Outlook is IS listed: Advanced > Rebuild > OK. If Microsoft Outlook is NOT listed: Modify > Select it > OK. Note: You can get to the same options in ‘Control Panel’ > Indexing options. Within Outlook > File > Options > Search > Indexing Options. Microsoft Outlook: Check Indexing, and Rebuild Index Incomplete Missing Outlook īefore we start ‘fixing’ search, are you sure you are not just missing emails because modern Outlook will only cache 3 months of email locally, so emails older than that, simply cannot be seen by the index? If so you may need to change the following setting. If that is your problem and you are running Exchange 2016 (or earlier), then see the following article first.Įach of the following may work, or you may need to work though the list, but BE AWARE once indexing is fixed it can take some time (depending on how much email you have) to index it all, be patient.
If you have multiple clients with their mailboxes in an ‘on-premise Exchange Server’ then the problem is probably indexing on their mailbox database, (as long as it’s not Exchange 2019 (or newer) as indexing in new versions of Exchange is done at mailbox level). Let’s be clear here, I’m dealing a problem on the ‘ client side‘ either with Outlook itself, or with Windows indexing. Something went wrong and your search couldn’t be completed. When attempting to perform a ‘Search’ whilst in Microsoft Outlook, you encounter a problem (it’s not working).
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