Outlook and Search

[Guest]

I want to exclude Outlook from the search index. I have a large 1 gig PST.
Including it in the index seems to affect outlook's performance. Note, I
moved the file file an Office XP machine so it is not indexed. I don't
really want mail searching. I have have tried to MODIFY the indexing to
remove the pointer to MS outlook but it keeps coming back. Is that because I
am indexing my entire C drive.?

 

[Dave Wood [MS]]

There's a known issue if you are using Outlook 2007 that unchecking the
"Microsoft Office Outlook" node in the Indexing Options Control Panel won't
have the effect you want. Instead you need to uncheck each individual mail
store and PST.

Does this work for you? If anyone is having a similar issue please let me
know...

Dave

 

[Guest]

Actually, it does NOT work very well. I had to check and uncheck each PST.
The reason that I am doing this is covered in other posts. I was getting
continuous corruption in the PST when I closed outlook. This was probably
arising because the file was not completely indexed. I found I could only
get stable performance with outlook 2007 when I removed it from the index
process.