I'm hoping there's a way to put the index on the writeable volume in the same fasion as we redirected the OST file.
My end users don't want to give up Outlook Search.
I made it to work on our environment.
Note:- allvolattached_shellstarted.bat is needed only if you are using UEM
Script for allvolattached.bat
@echo off
if not exist "c:\snapvolumestemp\Services.txt" (
echo > "c:\snapvolumestemp\Services.txt"
cd c:\windows\system32
NET stop WSearch
timeout 15
NET start WSearch
exit
)
Script for allvolattached_shellstarted.bat ( This script is needed only if you are using UEM in your environment)
@echo off
if not exist "c:\temp\uem_refresh.txt" (
echo > "c:\temp\uem_refresh.txt"
"C:\Program Files\Immidio\Flex Profiles\FlexEngine.exe" -UemRefreshshortcuts
)
What if I'm using Writeable Volumes alongside UEM? Amd I shooting myself in the foot?
Thanks for your assistance, here. I'm pretty new to appstacks & UEM.
Can you elaborate on the process for this?
App Volumes has a feature to run scripts at various times during the mounting process of Appstacks:
The best option to resolve the outlook issue is to create an allvolattached.bat & allvolattached_shellstarted.bat and put this in the AppStack that will be assigned to all users. You can also put it in all the Appstacks, this script will still only run once.
How to add the script to an Appstack?
Hope this helps you.
I appreciate the continued assistance. What about the case where Office 365 is baked onto the Gold Master, not its own appstack?
Also, if I'm using non-persistent desktops (which I am) won't that create an issue where the index is constantly being deleted & recreated when the desktop is refreshed, creating undue I/O?
In my environment it works fine with batch scripts on both scenarios
If you look at the batch script allvolattached.bat that stops Windows search service and starts after 15 secs that increases the login time. Other than that I am not seeing any issues
So, if I'm doing it 100% baked on, there wouldn't be an appstack, just the writeable volume. Where/how should I run the allvolattached.at then?
Hi,
we used writable volumes for the OST-file, too.
But don't want to save all the other files/folders/registry which normaly contains on the writable volume.
So we removed all the paths in the snapvol.cfg. Can you guys please provide the information which files and registry keys we will need to save the search index?
Hello
Anywhere Outlook search and indexing working with any other App volume version in combination with W10 supported platform...? tired of putting all the permutation and combination.. resulted the negative results..
Hi balagbm2017,
I also tried a lot of to get it working for windows7. I think there is no clean way to do this with appvolumes/writable volumes.
Maybe you know this VMware Knowledge Base article?
But I don't want to recommend writable volumes
There is no solution to only save the relevant data for outlook index. It will ends with lot more files on the writable volume with can make trouble.
We solved the issue with a chaged third party product --> http://lookeen.com
I've tried making Outlook with Search/indexing as an app stack and have failed. I could only get it to work properly by baking in office into the OS image. Only then did search and indexing work correctly using Instant clones and writable volumes. I don't like the idea of putting it into the OS image because it really defeats the purpose.
So if this setup is desired then I feel i'm forced to look at a 3rd party solution for searching outlook.
LB