Search Service Tuning on a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Server GPO Settings

 Recommended GPO Settings

These GPO settings can be updated to turn down the indexing while allowing the Outlook’s instant search feature to function.

• Windows Components/Search
• Allow indexing of encrypted files, Disabled
• Prevent adding UNC locations to index from Control Panel, Enabled
• Prevent adding user-specified locations to the All Locations menu, Enabled
• Prevent automatically adding shared folders to the index, Enabled
• Prevent indexing e-mail attachments, Enabled
• Prevent indexing of certain file types, Enabled
• Prevent indexing public folders, Enabled
• Enable Throttling for online mail indexing, 6 items per minute (maximum is 120 per minute)
• Prevent indexing certain paths:
  file:///C:\*
  outlookexpress://{*}/*
  otfs://{*}/*
  mapi://{*}/*
  mapi15://{*}/*
  ONEINDEX15://{*}/*
  iehistory://{*}/

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