Category: Microsoft Windows Vista or any version of Windows with Windows Search 3.01 or later

This policy setting hides or displays the Advanced Options dialog for Search and Indexing Options in the Control Panel. If you enable this policy setting the Advanced Options dialog for Search and Indexing Options in the Control Panel cannot be opened. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users can acess the Advanced Options dialog for Search and Indexing Options in the Control Panel. This is the default for this policy setting.

Enabling this policy allows indexing of mail items on a Microsoft Exchange server when Microsoft Outlook is not running in cached mode. The default behavior for search is to not index uncached Exchange folders. Disabling this policy will block any indexing of uncached Exchange folders. Delegate mailboxes are managed separately from online mailboxes. The “Enable Indexing of Uncached Exchange Folders” has no effect on delegate mailboxes. To stop indexing of online and delegate mailboxes you must disable both policies.

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.

Enable this policy setting to prevent the indexing of the content of e-mail attachments. If enabled indexing service components (including non-Microsoft components) are expected not to index e-mail attachments. Consider enabling this policy if you are concerned about the security or indexing performance of non-Microsoft document filters (iFilters). This policy is disabled by default.

Enable this policy to prevent indexing public folders in Microsoft Office Outlook. When this policy is disabled or not configured the user has the option to index cached public folders in Outlook. Public folders are only indexed when using Outlook 2003 or later. The user must be running in cached mode and the Download Public Folder Favorites option must be turned on.

Store indexer database in this directory. This directory must be located on a local fixed drive.

This policy setting allows words that contain diacritic characters to be treated as separate words. If you enable this policy setting words that only differ in diacritics are treated as different words. If you disable this policy setting words with diacritics and words without diacritics are treated as identical words. This policy setting is not configured by default. If you do not configure this policy setting the local setting configured through Control Panel will be used. Note: By default the Control Panel setting is set to treat words that differ only because of diacritics as the same word.