Policy

Prevent indexing Microsoft Office Outlook

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Prevent indexing Microsoft Office Outlook
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Search
Supported on
Microsoft Windows Vista, or any version of Windows with Windows Search 3.01 or later

Supported OS tags: WindowsVista

Enable this policy to prevent indexing of any Microsoft Outlook items. The default is to automatically index Outlook items. If this policy is enabled then the user's Outlook items will not be added to the index and the user will not see them in search results.

Internal name
PreventIndexingOutlook
Policy ID
4c6a53e472d4
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
Value name
PreventIndexingOutlook
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
Value name
PreventIndexingOutlook
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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This policy has no additional user input fields.