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Outlook Search not showing recent emails in Windows 11
Outlook search (Office 365) is not showing recent emails in Windows 11. This is a well know issue and documented by Microsoft in KB5008212, where it says: "The Windows Team is currently estimating th...
It looks to be still in a staged roll-out phase. If you want it now, switching your computer to the Release Preview Channel will make sure you get it now.
Start-> Settings-> Windows Update-> Windows Insider Program-> Choose your Insider settings-> Release Preview.
Thanks again. I successfully updated with release KB5011563. I switched off the "Outlook Temporary Workaround" and for good measure I started reindexing in Windows 11 on March 25, 2022. After more than 2 days the indexing seems to be going nowhere. The "items remaining to be indexed" in Outlook keeps going up and has now slowed down around 95,000 items. Windows 11 ("Searching Windows - indexing status") reports "Indexed": 21,000 (slowing down) and "Pending": 200,000 (increasing). So, after the PC has worked on re-indexing for more than 48 hours straight, Outlook still cannot perform searching within my IMAP account. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance for advice to get my Outlook searching again, which is essential for me. - Mikael
MikeB112 I have the same experience just updated, disabled the workaround and rebuilt index but search is still not working.
karlfriedrich11 RobertSparnaaij
Now that we are at least two Oulook-users with the same search problem - even after installing relelease KB5010563 - I sincerely hope Microsoft or others can help us get one of the most importanmt functions in Outlook back. Outlook is clearly not the same without the search function.
- RobertSparnaaij
Robert, I'm wondering if you would be kind enough to assist further given that searching recent emails in Outlook still does not work, even af installing release KB5010563 as you and MS recommended. Thanks in advance.
