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Exchange Online - Issue with Search in Outlook
It looks like a systemic issue - more and more users experience the same issue, different tenants.
The search results in Outlook Desktop don't include CURRENT e-mails (eg. last 7 days, search "from" & especially for internal senders with @ in the phrase) AND not show ANY results for SharedMailbox/es (current folder seach mode). Otlook 16.0.14701.20254 64bit. The issue occures on managed (AADJ) and unmanaged devices, W10 10.0.19042.1415 / 10.0.19044.1415 so far. Any ideas? Service Health doesn't mention any issue like this. More users get affected in the last days of 2022...
- Resolution: Repair Office 365.
Control Panel > Select the program (Microsoft Office 365 Business - en-us > Right-click > "Change" > and then Repair > Wait for it to complete > Restart PC
It requires local admin rights on the device.
Question: can we "repair" with Intune / Microsoft Endpoint Manager? Anybody knows?
- Microsoft gave up on this issue. Completely broken search in the Outlook app since January. Repair doesn't do anything, this is all in the tenant and it's cascading down to the app.
Try this:
- Click 'Junk Mail' folder
- Type in something to search in the top bar, and search all folders
- Click on any safe result that comes up
You'll see it filters the links as if that result was actually in Junk Mail
I won't even get started on searching for partial words or phrases in Outlook, that ship has sailed.
If you have a Shared Folder that stops updating/sync'ing:
- Go to the Advanced account tab where you'd set up Shared Folders and uncheck 'Advanced Shared Calendar features'
- Click OK
- Go back to accounts and disable Offline cache
- Restart Outlook and reenable Offline cache
It seems to clear up that issue for now...
Oh, and, don't forget, if you're missing mail you're expecting, go check online in the Quarantine you don't know you have! So many SMB's are lighting up my phone due to missing email these days... - If you can reliably reproduce this, best open a support case.
