Adding shared mailboxes to search index

Hi
We are using Office 2013/Outlook 2013 C2R and Exchange Online.
Our shared mailboxes appear to Outlook as expected and other ways work normally but I can not do s search against to shared mailbox. When I go to Inbox folder of a shared mailbox, do some search, I do not get any results.
How to search shared mailbox?

Hi,
Please setup the shared mailbox Exchange account in a single profile to have a try. In this way, we can index & search another mailbox in Outlook 2013 without problem. For detailed information about it, please refer to the Add multiple
Exchange accounts to a profile part in the following article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee815819.aspx
Thanks,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

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