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Outlook 2007 + Instant Search + Advanced Find
Hello,
We have Outlook 2007 installed on all of our virtual desktops and it seems that you can't use the instant search or advanced find features unless you install windows search (formerly windows desktop search) on each machine. Installing the windows search starts an indexing service that indexes all emails, files, etc on each vm. This causes quite a bit of disk i/o and which obviously is less than ideal in a virtual desktop environment. Has anyone else come across this? Is there an alternative approach?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi
Are you talking about the inbox, or are you talking about a PST file?
For the former i would try turning cached exchange mode off, then the searching is done on the server.
For the latter, we have windows 7 machines and they have windows indexer installed (windows feature). We are running office 2010 and each login users need to wait until the pst is indexed before they can search. The only thing is you would need indexer to index each login. I had a look and you cant change the indexer files to a network share, they are pc specific.
I hope that helps something
Cheers
Phil
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Windows Search is one of the nastiest pieces of software for use in VDI, especially floating pools. The index is created a on a per-machine basis so when a user moves to a new machine, the index needs to run again. The index consumes disk space, hammers DiskIO, and needs to be run every time the user moves machine.
Uninstalling it resulted in Office 2010 Protected modes doing very strage things and reporting files as corrupt.
I have disabled completely via GPO, and hope not to ever have to use it again.
All in my humble opinion of course! ![]()