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Outlook 2019 Shared Calendar Search Not Working

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I am trying to search on a shared calendar (I have full editing permissions) but cannot. It will only search on my own calendar. Also, I noticed there are duplicates of shared calendars under My Calendars that I cannot delete. I've tried blowing out my profile and uninstalling Office Suites--none of which helped. I've also rebuilt my search index and that only fixed the search on my own calendar. Any help on this issue is greatly appreciated.

Hi RL,
Which version and build of Outlook are you using? See File, Office Account for the information. There are some search bugs that affected shared mailboxes.

Do you have the shared calendars open as both a shared mailbox and a shared calendar?
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Diane Poremsky
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Hi Diane,

I am using Office Professional Plus 2019. And, yes, I also have both shared mailbox and calendar.

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Shared mailboxes can only be search one folder at a time and are not included in the all calendar items search. you need to select the folder and use 'current folder' search scope. That said, there are issues with search and shared mailboxes - its working here now but wasn't working a few weeks ago.
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Hi Diane,

I've tried searching just within the current folder to no avail. How can I be sure this is a bug? I've uninstalled and deleted the profile and still no changes. 

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Are you caching the shared folders? Try disabling that in File, Account Settings, open the account settings dialog. Double click on the account and click More Settings > Advanced and stop caching shared folders. See that search works. Outlook uses the online search when the mailbox is not cached.
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I am using Cached mode. I will try it, thank you. 

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Hello Diane,

I've tried working off of Cached mode and still the calendar search is not working. Any other ideas for me?

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Last updated March 30, 2024 Views 2,790 Applies to: