It's possible to index non-cached stores but it's not enabled by default.

There's a Group Policy to enable this called "Prevent indexing uncached
Exchange folders" which needs to be disabled.

"S. Alter" <S. Alter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Using Windows Desktop Search on XP allowed me to index all my email
> accounts
> from our corporate Exchange (2003) server and (it then stored the index
> localy).
>
> Using Vista Search, this does not seem to be the case. Using 'Indexing
> Options' --> Modify --> Microsoft Office Outlook, I only see my primary
> email
> address (i don't see any of my other accounts) and it is grayed out. When
> I
> hover with the pointer, it says "This email store will not be indexed by
> default unless it is cached localy. To enable indexing you need to adjust
> your Outlook email account settings to cache email localy" - which is of
> course a pain - i have 4 PC/Laptops and my email accounts included
> gigabytes
> of stuff.
>
> Any solution to this conundrum? Is it not possible to force Vista Search
> to
> index directly from Exchange and store the index localy (as was the case
> on
> XP)?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> S. Alter