The Find tool (and Advanced Find) searches across folders in a single Personal Folders file or in your Exchange Server mailbox. However, it cannot search subfolders in another user’s mailbox or in a public folder.
You can get searchable subfolders in a public folder by adding one of the tools on this page which generally rely on index server technology.
Personal search tools are listed at Personal Tools
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Document-management system based on SQL Server, where users can save email messages and attachments for inclusion in the full-text index. Outlook users can also send documents as attachment links. | |
IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search is a new module from Autonomy that runs on any PC in order to make the corporate desktop entirely searchable. A secure, enterprise version of desktop search, IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search integrates with all other Autonomy modules making content from secure corporate networks, intranets, local data sources, the Web as well as information on the desktop, such as email, office documents readily and easily accessible. | |
Lookeen enables Outlook users to browse all data in e-mails, contacts, appointments, tasks or notices in a fast, easy and slick way. Relevant information is at the user's fingertips within a few seconds, and search results covering all file attachments, archive and exchange folders is presented in a transparent manner. Now with real-time indexing. Supports Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010 including 64-bit Outlook 2010. Version 3.7 | |
Document management system that integrates with Exchange Server and offers search capability as well as rules-based classification of ingoing and outgoing messages. | |
As any Exchange Public Folder user knows, you can't search all the folders under "Public Folders" in Outlook - you can only search one folder at a time. This small utility addresses this limitation and allows you to search in subfolders of Public Folders. Free. | |
Microsoft portal, document management, search and applications server with built-in digital dashboard. | |
Policy-driven archiving system for Exchange Server providing automatic archiving of older content, content indexing for web-based search and PST archive migration. When mailbox and public folder items are archived, shortcuts are left in the mailbox so that users can still access the items without looking in a separate store. | |
Allows Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Internet Information Server, and Site Server to full-text index the contents of zip archives created with WinZip, PKZIP, or any other compression program that uses the PKWARE compression format. |
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Last reviewed on Dec 8, 2011

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