Laurent Kempé

I had the same problem and tried Office Diagnostics but that didn't solve the problem. What solved it was booting up into safe mode and opening Outlook 2007. As soon as I did that a balloon announced the office file needed repairs. when the repairs finished i double checked the instant search again and it was working fine. I re-booted and opened Outlook again and waited for the file to be re-indexed and then the search was working perfectly again!

It used to be that Outlook would tell me if there were problems fixing the PST file while running windiws normally but this time it didn't tell me. Only when I booted in safe mode was it able to do something about it. Perhaps there was a new driver or application that was interfering.

Hope this helps you.

I have had the same problem and it's driving me nuts trying to fix it.  I've rebuilt the index several times with no luck.

After reading your comment, I realized that my problem began after I installed Microsoft FrontPage 2003.  Is there something I can do that will allow me to keep FP 2003 loaded on my Vista machine and Office 2007?

Sympton: Instant search returns o results

0/system: Vista Ultimate

Outlook 2007

Possible reason: Recent installation of Frontpage 2003

Ran Office diagnostics --- problem not fixed

Same problem here, Exchange search stopped working one day after installing Vista and Office 2007, only I did not install any Office 2003 components. Found a MSDN posting saying this is a known issue with Exchange Server 2000, but offering no solution other than installing a hotfix on the server. It seems there are several possible causes for the Exchange 2007 search not working.

I had the same problem. Solved it by inserting the office2007 cd and runned repair. Thanks for your help!

Same problem; search worked fine when starting VISTA  in safe mode en the running OUTLOOK 2007; however : when returning to "normal mode" the search did not work ! (message : "indexing your items", .....

Thanks for Your help,

Marc

Ok, I had this problem as well... check this out...

1. In outlook 2007 go to > Tools > Instant Search > Search Options. Take the check out of "Personal Folders" and click OK. It will make you restart Outlook. Now, reverse the process and add the check back and it SHOULD re-index the mail file.

2. Control Panel > Indexing Options. Click on Advanced at the bottom, then click the Rebuild button. Be warned that this will rebuild the entire index for all files, not just outlook.

Good Luck!

Here is what I found after trying almost everything and it worked perfectly for me.

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After two days of hammering Google and the Microsoft website I confirmed a fix that worked after none of the others I tried was successful. The problem seems to be a corrupted interaction between the index in Outlook and the other Vista indexes. I think that when you reindex Outlook while the Vista index has the problem or vice versa you pass the problem back and forth between Outlook and Vista. To really clear the indexes;

1) open the Outlook search option panel and unselect all folders for indexing.

2) Exit Outlook and without doing anything else wait a good while,(I waited 15 minutes) it was suggested that you allow time for the index to be removed.

3) reboot

4) go directly to the control panel, go to System and Maintenence, then to Indexing Options, then to Advanced Options.

5) Press the Reset Defaults button (yes if you have special options you will loose them) 6) Reboot and wait for the indexes to rebuild (this may take quite a long time. 7) When you return to Outlook you will see the Indexing Status now actually works its way through the items and when it completes the Instant search works. I think this was the first time I have seen it work since I built this system

Thanks Bert.

Yours recomendations worked perfectly.

Bert, your instructions worked but it only lasted for about 3 minutes :)

as soon as i opened outlook after the 2nd reboot i checked the index status and it was on 130 items but still being indexed. i closed the status window and checked 5 min later

nothing but zeros :(

i am working remotely for 2 more weeks so obviously can't get the original cd in the drive to do a repair.

this is driving me nutz .. i can't believe microsoft hasn't realized this and put a fix out.

i have tried everything else i could find that i could actually do but don't know how to reboot remotely and get into safemode with networking so i could log in .

if anyone has any other suggestions, i would be most appreciative.

hey dee ho !

after bert's initial instructions helped but disappeared, i decided to try the ole uncheck the drives in the search options trick and knock on plastic, search works now !

thanks all !  (mostly bert :)

I had a my Personal Folder corrupted and when this was re-created, I noticed that my search results in Outlook were now imcomplete.  So I followed these instructions from a previous post....

1. In outlook 2007 go to > Tools > Instant Search > Search Options. Take the check out of "Personal Folders" and click OK. It will make you restart Outlook. Now, reverse the process and add the check back and it SHOULD re-index the mail file.

And that worked quite well for me.  I was surprised to see that after checking the box to re-enable my Personal Folder to be indexed, I then checked ...

Outlook -> Tools -> Instant Search -> Index Status

...which showed that all items were indexed.  It was very quick, too quick to really have re-indexed my 700M PST file.  But I am now seeing many more hits on the same search that I had previously run, so something resolved itself.

thanks for all the help on this issue.  i too installed an '03 access and even though i reinstalled word and outlook '07 searches weren't working.  it was driving me nuts all week until i did a google search and found this page.  running in safe mode did not work.  method of going into search options and unchecking personal folder closing and then opening and rechecking worked.  thanks again, laura

I reinstalled the office 2007 now i am able to search but only new mails not from old mails

Good posts.  I was able to go into Outlook 2007 options search index and DISABLED the check for indexing.

This, at least, provides a WORKING SEARCH.. although it crawls the emails every time I use search.

I then went to my VISTA Windows Control Panel, System Maintenance, Indexing Options... and STARTED A FRESH INDEX rebuild.

I also followed the suggestion of unchecking the Outlook search index for personal folder, closed, reoppened Outlook and re-checked it again.

I will do more testing tomorrow, but at least I have some sort of Search now.

Thanks to all !  Good post !

"I also followed the suggestion of un-checking the Outlook search index for personal folder, closed, reopened Outlook and re-checked it again."

I was working on a list of dental contacts for a teeth whitening campaign, and I could not find all of the records in the index.  This fix worked like a charm.

Guys,

I had a total index failure, I followed the reccomendations given here and watched the index grow to nearly 60,000 items.

So far it has stayed intact, but boy do you miss the indexing feature when its not around.

Thanks for your ideas and suggestions

Office 2007, Vista 64bit, Exchange Server 2007

WPecker

Check the site restartis.wordpress.com/.../issue-series-outlook-search-not-working-under-vista

Thanks M$ Sux it worked