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seigfried
Copper Contributor
Oct 14, 2022

In-Place Archive Folder Not Searching (Online Archive)

For one of our users, the Online Archive on the desktop app (which maps to In-Place Archive in OWA) is not searching. Outlook online works successfully and he is able to search, but not on the local machine. The folders can be clicked on and manually scrolled, but his emails stretch back 10 years in the online archive.  We also tried logging in on another device and the issue follows. I tried stopping the indexing via the registry to no avail. I'm not sure if it has to do with a recent update. He reported the issue yesterday, 10/13/22.

 

Update: This user has auto-expanding enabled, auto archive after 1 year, has about 29 gb for his mailbox size and about 90 gb for the online archive.

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  • The Online archive is always accessed in Online mode only, so the local cache/search index doesn't matter. And if OWA search works fine, it looks like the server-side index is fine. Which leads me to believe it's a client issue.
    Is he getting no results at all in Outlook, or limited set or?
    • seigfried's avatar
      seigfried
      Copper Contributor
      No search results at all, but the content is there.
      • VasilMichev's avatar
        VasilMichev
        MVP
        Which version/build of Office is that? Are other users having similar issues? In any case if you can reliably reproduce this behavior, best open a support case.

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