So for the past few days I have been unable to search in Outlook 2016, version has been updated to latest and still unable to search, just shows no results. Id bit of searching around and could not really find an answer until this morning. A few people are mentioning this on other sites and didn't really see any solutions here so I thought I would help out. Have tried dropping the group containers into spotlight privacy and then remove it in the hope it would re-index. Had even tried re-indexing the entire computer. None of these worked.

Next to Change my status from Inactive to Away after this many minutes, click the up or down arrows to specify how long Skype for Business should wait before changing your status to Away. The maximum interval of time you can enter is 360 minutes. Your status lets people know if you're available. To change your status: Click the status icon next to your profile picture.If you're on iOS, first tap My Info; on Android, tap the menu icon.; Select the status you want to use from the list. Change your presence status. Click the status menu drop-down arrow below your name on the Skype for Business main window, and then click the status you want to show other people. To revert from the status you set and have Skype for Business automatically update your status, click the status menu and then click Reset Status. Show presence status Away when machine is locked I expect same presence status behaviour like on windows. When I lock my Macintosh - I expect SfB to reflect this in my presence status.

Found this website: Just be aware though, when I went through finder to navigate into the outlook.app/contents. Finder locked up, so had to enter file path through terminal not just drag and drop into a terminal window Hope it helps:). Ok, the only thing that worked for me was a complete user account rebuild. All the above options did not work. Unfortunately, I could not replicate the problem and have not been able to since. Obviously, it was a problem somewhere in this users specific account.

I couldn't tell you where. I can say that this was a new user which had only been using Outlook for 2 weeks before he noticed. Other computers that were imaged and setup did NOT have this issue. Interestingly enough, I have had other friends who use Casper tell me that spotlight search was not working SPORADICALLY on their images. I have ran across this randomly as well.

I'm not sure if it's related, but it could be. The user account re-creation fixing this makes this confusing, though. Is there a user specific spotlight file that configures searching in the user account? This is going to be annoying but I'd like to know if anyone has this problem on their machines currently. This problem has sporadically cropped up in my environment still. I do not know what is causing it but I do have a solution that has worked 100% of the time when it does happen.

However, Outlook 2016 on the new laptop doesn't and is often missing entire email trails in the search results. Yet if he browses to the date he sees in Outlook 2010, he can see the emails listed in 2016. How to fix Outlook 2016 for Mac crashes and doesn’t send e-mail March 7, 2015 • Microsoft, Post, Software • Views: 66563 This week’s announcement that a preview of the new Office 2016 for Mac is now officially available was a little surprise to me. Skype for mac 10.7 unable to connect to server. The search appears to work normally, but after looking through a number of PSTs, Outlook 2016 appears to start missing some emails. We thought that perhaps each PST would need to be indexed, but.

The following commands do fix it, as posted by someone else in another thread. I believe the key line may be the never_index_metadata line. (haven't been able to replicate the problem enough to narrow things down).

Sudo mdutil -i off / sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight* sudo rm -rf /.metadata_never_index REBOOT the computer NOW sudo mdutil -i on / sudo mdutil –E. Hello all, I really hate how stupid this work around is, but it worked for me. In finder navigate to: /Users/'user'/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/ - Open System Preferences, Spotlight, Privacy. - Drag the Directory 'Main Profile' into the 'Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations' pane. - Quit then re-open System Preferences - Go back t the Privacy pane in Spotlight - Remove the 'Main Profile' Directory from the 'Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations' pane. That should kick Spotlight into action re-indexing the directory, you can check this by opening your spotlight search and typing in 'indexing'.