Any group policy to force Outlook 2016 to use windows index?

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2016-07-29

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_{Friday, July 29, 2016 11:19 AM}

Any group policy to force Outlook 2016 to use windows index?

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_{Monday, August 1, 2016 5:42 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

No built-in group policy settings for this purpose. But we have a registry key, which can be used to force Outlook to use the local Windows Search Index instead of sending the Search query to Exchange.

So a workaround here is to deploy this specific registry key via "Group Policy Preference", to switch back to Windows Search Index:

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Search

Or

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Search

Value name: DisableServerAssistedSearch
Value type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

Read more on how to create registry key via Group Policy Preference:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753092%28v=ws.11%29.aspx

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Ethan Hua

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_{Friday, July 29, 2016 11:52 AM}

Please find the reference article to modify indexing:

https://lookeen.com/blog/how-to-fix-outlook-2016-search-problems

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/rebuild-outlook-2016-search-index/

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Reset-indexing-by-rebuilding-your-Instant-Search-catalog-213a2728-0ef4-427a-9bb2-aed329a59b17

Thanks!

Mayank Dhama

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