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Outlook Search Not Working - WVD/FSLogix
Hi all,
Microsoft has to confirmed to us that the multi-user search indexing currently has a bug / is a known issue. ETA on a fix is not yet given by MS.
However, we received a private fix from them which fixes the problem for testing purposes. In the meantime, we are using this workaround:
- Disable Windows 2019/10 user-based search indexing (HKLM:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search "EnablePerUserCatalog" DWORD 0.
- Enable FSlogix search indexing (searchroam = 2 = multi-user search enabled).
Although FSlogix search roaming is not supported for Windows 10 / 2019, it works like a charm and fixes Outlook search indexing issues.
When MS release a public fix for the bug, we can revert back to the Windows feature. Only inconvenience will be that every user will need to rebuild his search index, but I don't really care.
This workaround fixed PST indexing on 2 AVD hosts I manage. One with FSLogix profiles and one without on Win 10 multi-user OS.
I appreciate the info.
Smurgen how did you fix it on the host without FSlogix if I may ask?
Is it an environment with just one session host in the farm maybe?
- I tested logging in and out with a FSLogix profile that has a pst file stored in it. Outlook has to reindex it at every login. If the pst isn't very big this shouldn't be a big deal. The test pst I'm using is 100MB and took about 2 minutes to fully index.
- Hi Smurgen,
We don't use PST files, no I did not test that. We only use OST (cache) files, and with OST it works fine with the FSlogix workaround.
About the WVD farm with only one host, it would suffice to just disable per user indexing on the server. That would revert it back to machine based indexing, which is fine if you only have one host. In that case the index does not have to roam with the user.
Marco Brouwer Yes, there is only 1 session host. I did enable the FSLogix roaming search setting but can't test it.