

#Windows 7 file location of outlook contact groups windows
To explain we’ll use the same user as above, but logging on to a 7.18 version VDA for the first time.ĭuring the Profile Management logon, the user’s Outlook-related search index is split out of the Windows search index database (Windows.edb) and written to a VHDX file created at: The Profile Management 7.18 release introduced a feature to address these Outlook-related performance challenges. We can see this design in the image below:īehavior using VHDX-based Outlook cache and Outlook search index on a user basis The location of the Windows search index database is typically:Ĭ:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb Outlook searches have to wait until re-indexing finishes. If a user launches an Outlook session (or opens Outlook in a desktop session) on a VDA machine that they haven’t access previously or haven’t accessed for a while, the Outlook search index has to be rebuilt in Windows.edb. This is a machine-based file, which means it holds search index data for all users logging onto the machine. This data is stored in the Windows search index database: Windows.edb. In Outlook cached mode, the OST file can be very large, so there is a significant overhead if the OST file is part of Profile Management logon/logoff synchronization.Īctions in Outlook, such as sending/receiving mail result in changes to the Outlook search index database. The location of the file is typically:Ĭ:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\.OST Outlook has been configured to use the Outlook. To best explain, we’ll take a user that has an existing Profile Management 7.17 profile and launches published Outlook (or opens Outlook in a desktop session). There have been two Outlook-related performance challenges with Citrix Profile Management. It may take some patience but one of these will fix your contacts missing in Outlook problem.Behaviour prior to Profile Management 7.18 If not then you can try to add all senders and recipients as contacts to try to rebuild your contact list. If you don’t have access to the original pst-file then maybe at some point you synced your contacts with your phone? If so then you can sync them once again with Outlook. If for some reason after all of this you still have nothing happening then you may need to rebuild the contacts folder in Outlook. If you go back into your Address book options you will be able to change the default.

This is necessary when you have other accounts connected to your Outlook.

If the contacts appear in the folder, but when you go to compose an email nothing shows up when clicking ‘To:’, then you most likely need to change your default list.

