Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

re: Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

Stephen Griffin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:27:14 GMT

Looks like STORE_PUSHER_OK would have gotten Google what they wanted without ruining the party for everyone else:

http://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/archive/2007/03/02/outlook-2007-rtm-docs-notification-based-indexing-support.aspx

Update: Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

outblog — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:44:22 GMT

Update:

Google has posted a new entry on their blog with some updates and an explanation for why they turned off Windows Desktop Search (as well as several other Outlook add-ins you may use) when using Google Apps Sync. It is worth noting that the only way to return Outlook Search to its default state (using WDS) is still to either uninstall Google Apps Sync or to modify the registry key as stated earlier in this post. We will provide more information on the Outlook blog as it becomes available.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/06/whats-different-with-google-apps-sync.html

Dev Balasubramanian

Outlook Product Manager

Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

Glowtouch Technologies — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:59:10 GMT

Thanks for the information. very helpful.

re: Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

Blars — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:03:21 GMT

Google Sync for Outlook also seems to have broken my installation of Business Contact Manager for Outlook. I installed Google Sync for Outlook earlier this afternoon, and now Business Contact Manager no longer runs. (My database seems to have been wiped out!)

After installing Google Sync, I restarted Outlook, which then tried to do what it thought was an initial install of BCM, even though it's been installed for months. I initially cancelled the re-install of BCM, but later agreed. However something is botched -- it is not able to restore from a backup database file.

Windows 7 disables Outlook search

sroussey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:07:18 GMT

It is not the only way to disable Outlook search. In Win7, change your index location to another drive (say D). Now shutoff the system and remove that drive and start back up again. Search is dead, and worse, the UI to fix it fails, so you can't change it back to C.

re: Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

Oded — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:12:38 GMT

I followed the isntructions to manually fix the search issue.

I was able to locate

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\

But I do not have folder "Windows Search"

Does anyone know how to add it back in?

re: Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

rgbigel — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:27:04 GMT

I uninstalled Google Apps Sync, but this blog tells me I need to reset the registry key "PreventIndexingOutlook" in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search".

The key "PreventIndexingOutlook" does not exist on my machine (now). Is this specific to Windows 7? The only key other than (Standard) in this Location is "DisableBackoff" (=Dword 0 here). Is this OK?

re: Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

Matiasb — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:38:40 GMT

After installing Google Apps Sync, a new profile was created in the local machine.

This is causing that every time I start outlook I have to choose which profile to use.

I already uninstall the plugin (because of this and several other drawbacks), but the profile was not uninstalled.

Is there a way to remove this profile created by Google Apps Sync?

The link below explains how to remove a profile, but following the instructions, in my machine there is noy "Mail" option when clicking "User Account". I'm running under a Windows Vista 64bits.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP012304771033.aspx

Thanks in advance!

re: Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

Tim Acheson — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:15:09 GMT

This is a reminder that Google Apps represents a risk to users, which business users should be especially aware of, and the risks of Google Apps are not limited to the vulnerabilities ingerent in Internet usage.

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/aug/google_apps_are_a_risk_for_business_users