#Windows 10 outlook 2007 indexing not working upgrade
The cause is that the search index is deleted during the Windows upgrade and then recreated after the upgrade is complete. For Exchange and Microsoft 365 hosted accounts, this issue will affect offline search for the data in the locally stored OST files. This issue will happen with any account where the emails and other items are stored locally in PST or OST files such as POP and IMAP accounts. The problem description:Īfter upgrade to Windows 11, Outlook searches return no results. Microsoft publishes a workaroundĪs colleagues here found out, Microsoft already confirmed the problem in a support post Outlook search does not return results after upgrade to Windows 11 at the end of October 2021. But besides confirmations, someone wrote that they were able to fix the problem by turning off indexing. Since Outlook 2007 has fallen out of support, not much in the way of feedback was expected.
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Thank you for any help to resolve the problem. I have tried everything Microsoft support pages suggested, and many others, but with no resolution. This issue is causing me a headache, I had this issue when upgraded to Windows 10 but was able to fix it searching on the net. This was working on Windows 10 and Windows 8/7.
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Since I upgraded to windows 11, Outlook no longer can search for text in messages. Microsoft also has a tech community post Outlook 2007 search on Windows 11 fails by returning no results about that issue.
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Shortly after the Windows 11 preview versions were released, users reported that Outlook search was broken.