Prevent indexing Microsoft Office Outlook

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.

This policy has no additional user input fields.

• Computer
  Add primary intranet search location

  Microsoft Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 with Windows Search version 3.01 or later
• Computer
  Add secondary intranet search locations

  Microsoft Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 with Windows Search version 3.01 or later
• Computer
  Allow Cloud Search

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow Cortana

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow Cortana above lock screen

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow Cortana Page in OOBE on an AAD account

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow indexing of encrypted files

  Microsoft Windows Vista, or any version of Windows with Windows Search 4.0 or later
• Computer
  Allow search and Cortana to use location

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow search highlights

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
• Computer
  Allow use of diacritics

  Microsoft Windows Vista, or any version of Windows with Windows Search 3.01 or later
• Computer
  Always use automatic language detection when indexing content and properties

  Microsoft Windows 8 or later
• Computer
  Configures search on the taskbar

  At least Windows 11