How to stop Windows Desktop Search from indexing Outlook messages

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I keep going to "Windows Desktop Search" (WDS) Index Options and
uncheck Microsoft Office Outlook. But after a while I go back and see,
the check mark is put back on and the "Index these locations" includes
that again. Is there a way to prevent it from being indexed? Thanks.

I have other problems with WDS. For instance, some files are not
indexed. But I'll deal with that later.

Yong Huang
 
RE: How to stop Windows Desktop Search from indexing Outlook messages

Hi,

There is a group policy which can help you configure the WDS.

Following is the setting.
===================

Prevent Indexing of Outlook
Enabling this policy prevents the indexing of Outlook items.

In the Desktop Search options, the E-mail and hard drive and E-mail and my
documents options are dimmed. The custom folders option is selected. The user
does not see Outlook when the user browses through items to index.

When this policy is disabled or not configured, the user can choose whether
or not to automatically index Outlook. The default is to automatically index
Outlook. If you enable and then disable this policy, Outlook indexing remains
turned off until the user manually enables it.
====================

There are other group policies which can help in administration of WDS.

Please refer to following link.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows/search/dtscustomize.mspx



"Yong Huang" wrote:

> I keep going to "Windows Desktop Search" (WDS) Index Options and
> uncheck Microsoft Office Outlook. But after a while I go back and see,
> the check mark is put back on and the "Index these locations" includes
> that again. Is there a way to prevent it from being indexed? Thanks.
>
> I have other problems with WDS. For instance, some files are not
> indexed. But I'll deal with that later.
>
> Yong Huang
>
 
RE: How to stop Windows Desktop Search from indexing Outlook messages

Thanks for this info.

This question interested me also.

Geoff


"Ashishsa(MSFT)" <AshishsaMSFT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:6362130E-EDC5-4C18-9AD3-C44166A155E6@microsoft.com:

> Hi,
>
> There is a group policy which can help you configure the WDS.
>
 
Re: How to stop Windows Desktop Search from indexing Outlook messages

On May 13, 3:18 am, Ashishsa(MSFT)
<AshishsaM...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a group policy which can help you configure the WDS.
>
> Following is the setting.
> ===================
>
> Prevent Indexing of Outlook
>  Enabling this policy prevents the indexing of Outlook items.
>
> In the Desktop Search options, the E-mail and hard drive and E-mail and my
> documents options are dimmed. The custom folders option is selected. The user
> does not see Outlook when the user browses through items to index.
>
> When this policy is disabled or not configured, the user can choose whether
> or not to automatically index Outlook. The default is to automatically index
> Outlook. If you enable and then disable this policy, Outlook indexing remains
> turned off until the user manually enables it.
> ====================
>
> There are other group policies which can help in administration of WDS.
>
> Please refer to following link.http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows/search/dtscustom...
>
>
>
> "Yong Huang" wrote:
> > I keep going to "Windows Desktop Search" (WDS) Index Options and
> > uncheck Microsoft Office Outlook. But after a while I go back and see,
> > the check mark is put back on and the "Index these locations" includes
> > that again. Is there a way to prevent it from being indexed? Thanks.
>
> > I have other problems with WDS. For instance, some files are not
> > indexed. But I'll deal with that later.
>
> > Yong Huang- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Thank you, Ashishsa. It took me a while to find desktopsearch30.adm.
That article doesn't say. But I had to download "WDS 3.01 for Windows
XP SP2" from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pr...oose/windowsdesktopsearch.mspx?tab=Install It
and install it, and extract the files (with command
WindowsDesktopSearch-KB917013-V301-XP-x86-enu.exe /extract) and find
the .adm file under update subfolder of the extract file folder. Hope
it helps somebody else looking hard for the .adm file.

One more question. Where do I find "Prevent Indexing of Outlook" as
the quoted article says? The template doesn't have this entry. Thanks
again for your help.

Yong Huang
 
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