June 17, 2009

Installing the Google Apps Sync plug-in apparently prevents Outlook to search your email data.

IAccording to Microsoft’s Outlook blog, Google’s much ballyhooed effort to sync Apps and Outlook disables Windows Desktop Search, which indexes your email data and searches it. Well that could hurt.

There is a workaround if you’ve installed the Google Apps Sync plug-in, but you have to edit your registry keys. In addition, Google has also modified the registry keys that allows Windows Live Hotmail and Outlook to sync.

Microsoft said it has offered to work with Google to find a fix for mutual customers. Chances are good that this won’t be the last time there are dueling search issues when these two get together.