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has a solution for this issue been posted. I am having the same issue, well in fact our whole company is experiencing this issue as the rollout of Office365 moves forward and everyone's productivity just stepped back in time. i spend hours
every week trying to figuire out a way around this saga.
My only solution I have discovered is to deliver all my email fromt he cloud back to my hard drive using a PST. I know their is an OST which resides on the hard drive but for some reason the OST that was created when we had the conventional Exchange
Server setup and managed inside our network worked perfectly.   But the OST under this Office365 setup seems to act like the old IMAP mess when you attempted to deliver hotmail to Outlook usign the Outlook Connector pluggin.
The connection to Hotmail worked perfectly but searches never worked and unreliable.
So I think before the Board approves that 80+ million dollar salary for new guy on top; they set aside some of those funds and start paying everyone for their time lost in productivity due to broken software.   In fact I think if the pay was
tied to these issues, and that balance dropped daily, these issues would rise to the top of the list and bring microsoft out of its current slump and make it the company it once was when Mr Gates was running the show and inspecting code himself when applications
were changed.
I noticed you mention Google Desktop for search... i have an old setup program from the days when it was available for download but have been unsuccesful getting it installed on a windows 7 desktop. I am curious how your using it and or made it work...
please respond because i surely would like to put this in place until they figure out how to get all these cloud services to work. thanks! Russ

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