Outlook Search order, LookOut and Google Desktop Enterprise.

[Viv]

We are running Outlook 2003 SP1 and SP2, with Exchange 2003 SP1 and SP2, in
cached mode. When user does a search in Outlook, it displays results from
the time when local .ost file was created first, then chronologically back
to the earliest emails. After that, it displays the results from more recent
times. So, if the user is searching on an item he receives in his inbox
today, he will need to wait until Outlook finishes searching on all inbox
items (unfortunately, it can be as many as 10,000 items or more, and
restricting the time frame in advanced find interface on every search is not
acceptable) before he sees the item he is looking for.

We are currently looking at Lookout and Google Desktop as alternatives. If
anyone has experience to share on these two utilities, I would appreciate
the information very much.

Also, does anyone know about or have seen the search behavior in Outlook
2007? The search function is supposed to be completely different from
Outlook 2003.

Viv

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Search in Outlook 2007 is indeed completely different. Search results appear in the current Outlook window, not a separate window, and are virtually instantaneous. See http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_affronti/ for many details.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Pete]

Sue
As a longterm LookOut user (I would quite happily buy the product as
an add-in) could I say that one of the joys of Lookout in 2003 was the fact
that it would index your data Drives as well as your Mailbox and PST's

Is there any plan to integrate this capability into the Search in Outlook
'07? or am I missing something in the plan?

Pete

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Since search in Outlook 2007 Beta 2 uses Windows Destop Search ver 3.0, I imagine that when the next version of WDS 3.0 comes out -- and provides the end-user UI -- you'll indeed see unified Outlook and local data drive search results.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers