Apr 06 2017 05:39 AM
I have noticed in the past couple of months that the quality of search within Outlook has gone downhill on my shared mailbox. I used tyo be able to search for a recipient and it would return both mail from them and also mail i had sent to them, however now it does not return any mail from a recipient only mail i have sent out which is not good. I have tried allsorts from suggestions on the web around rebuilding indexes, turning it off to only select from a mailbox even uninstalling and re-installing still no good. One thing i have found is that if i do a search on my mobile device through the OWA app on an android device it returns exactly what i am looking for. Any help would be gratefully received.
Apr 06 2017 10:46 AM
Searching in shared mailbox(es) depends on how the mailbox is added in Outlook (additional account vs additional mailbox) and whether the content is locally cached (with the "cache slider" also playing a role). Details are here:
Are you sure you are getting the sent items results from the shared mailbox, or is it your own? Do you happen to have the "keep a copy of sent messages for shared mailbox" option enabled?
Apr 06 2017 11:11 AM
Apr 07 2017 12:55 AM
Apr 07 2017 07:12 AM
It still applies to newer versions of Outlook. But yes, as Brent mentioned above we now have to take into consideration the server-side search too, which I also have some gripes with...
Apr 07 2017 09:19 PM
To Vasil's point, be aware the cache slider only works on the primary Exchange account and not additional mailboxes in all versions of Outlook except 2016.
Also, whilst adding a shared mailbox as an additional Exchange account will allow you to control caching via the shared mailboxes own slider, you'll will likely have to roll back when your users tell you they want to receive notifications for their own mailboxes and not the shared mailboxes!