Indexing problems Outlook - Windows 11

Anonymous
2021-12-06T08:01:16+00:00

I have updated to windows 11 and my outlook is continually trying to index and is paused alot.

I have installed all updates.

It gets to over 200,000 items indexed then pauses and starts again.

Can you please help with this problem

Thank yo

Dean

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For home

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-10-07T15:12:43+00:00

    This is actually getting worst! I've updated window 11 to the latest 22H2 and now, every morning, it lose all the indexing!!! I then need to stop and start windows search, rebuild index and, after approximately 2/3 hours, it works fine. That means that I need to use a different email server to search my work emails in the morning!!!

    This is complete bullcrap, I see a new update today, I will install it by EOD and, hopefully, tomorrow it will be better

    It's a nightmare at this point. Does this new update contain any reference to this issue?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-09T11:31:23+00:00

    Well I have had this same problem now since last December and have been getting really fed up with the whole issue and the inability for Microsoft to fix it. Have had various issues getting updates to install until I heard about the issue with .net Framework 3.1 which I disabled and eventually then managed to get updates to install. Have left it disabled ever since and so far not had any problem. So I then assumed that the original indexing issue with Win11 and Outlook 365 would also be solved. So Rebuilt the index which took days (left the PC on permanently). Index rebuilt and though all was good - no such luck as unindexed items just started to increase by the hour.

    Now came to 22H2 update which after a few attempts eventually installed and then I noticed that there were a further 3 updates waiting to be installed so set them off and they eventually installed.

    after 22H2 installed I noticed that the index had been restarted and was rebuilding - slowly. So left PC on with sleep set to 'never' and after a few days the index was completed and 0 items waiting to be indexed both in Wil11 and Outlook.

    Its been over a week now and indexes still seem ok with 0 items waiting to be indexed. Did have a worry a couple of days ago when I noticed that there were over 4k items waiting to be indexed - but leaving it working over night and all had been indexed by morning.

    Am not sure that the issue has finally been fixed - I did say that once before and it hadn't been - but things are looking a lot better than they have over the last 10 months !! Fingers and everything else crossed

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-10T08:06:38+00:00

    Nice to hear that, very Fingers crossed indeed, But, just one thing: are you sure it was .net Framework 3.1 and not 3.5 instead?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-10T16:02:24+00:00

    Oops!! Yes it should have been 3.5

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-11-09T21:37:18+00:00

    Hi:

    Indexing was working properly until two weeks ago when i updated office.

    I ran a repair office 2016

    i ran a repair pst file, errors found, repaired.

    i ran an index rebuild

    it index then restart indexing the next day

    Today i get mix messages, look at this screen: 34271 remaining but the floating screen says 64441 still to be indexed...

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