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I can't search any Outlook Items with Subject containing a word "VPN". However, those items does exist in the mailbox. Any idea ?

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AXISHK

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1. How to check whether Index is built up succesfully or not ?
2. I need to search a word "VPN" appear in Subject of the email. Do I need to explicitly specify in Outlook to lookup successfully ?

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John

Open Control Panel, Indexing Options and it will tell you in the first screen how complete indexing is. If you are using your computer, it can take a couple of days.

Also in Locations (first index options screen) make sure both USERS and Outlook are selected.

Niten Kumar

1. Click on the Search bar

2. You will see the top ribbon change and a Search Tools button showing. Click on it and click on Indexing Status.

3. You should see status as shown below.

AXISHK

ASKER

Seem like it can index properly.

Do I need to specify anyting in the searching criteria in order to lookup a word contained in the Subject ?

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John

Open Outlook and look in your Inbox.

Search for something in the Inbox. Does that work?

AXISHK

ASKER

Doesn't work. When typing something in the search box, does it lookup the content only or the subject as well ?

Thx

John

Make sure all the following are set and if you make changes, rebuild the index