Outlook 365 search
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Hmmm... a recent 'upgrade' or 'improvement' is causing me some grief...
Since search has moved to the title bar it's a bit rubbish, especially with regard to returning large numbers of hits.
For example, I received 10,000+ emails (automated, reporting an error in one of our systems). All identical with a nice common unique identifier ideal for searching in order to delete en masse.
New outlook returns 75 hits.
Go to bottom of list and it loads another 75.
Go to bottom again it loads another 100 or so.
Repeat until 1,025 when it reports no more results.
Select all, delete, and search again...
Repeat ten times.
What a ball ache!
Since search has moved to the title bar it's a bit rubbish, especially with regard to returning large numbers of hits.
For example, I received 10,000+ emails (automated, reporting an error in one of our systems). All identical with a nice common unique identifier ideal for searching in order to delete en masse.
New outlook returns 75 hits.
Go to bottom of list and it loads another 75.
Go to bottom again it loads another 100 or so.
Repeat until 1,025 when it reports no more results.
Select all, delete, and search again...
Repeat ten times.
What a ball ache!
Reported here
The Register Article said:
The Windows giant claims it has now fixed the problem, which affected Windows 10 Search and a bunch of Microsoft 365 services for customers, by rerouting network traffic. This ensured queries were finally answered:
We rerouted user connections and validated that impact associated with MO203172 has been remediated. Additional details can be found within the admin center.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) February 5, 2020
Incredibly, it seems Windows 10 Search and other services were knocked offline by infrastructure falling over, preventing all search results, even local ones, from showing up on desktops. Yes, it's that stupid.
In a note to customers, Microsoft blamed a "third-party networking fiber provider," that "experienced a network disruption resulting in impact," adding: "We're reviewing our network redundancy options to find ways to prevent this problem from happening again."
You will need to reboot your PC once, twice, or thrice to pick up the connectivity changes, if you were affected by today's outage.
Have you tried rebooting your PC? /standard support response. We rerouted user connections and validated that impact associated with MO203172 has been remediated. Additional details can be found within the admin center.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) February 5, 2020
Incredibly, it seems Windows 10 Search and other services were knocked offline by infrastructure falling over, preventing all search results, even local ones, from showing up on desktops. Yes, it's that stupid.
In a note to customers, Microsoft blamed a "third-party networking fiber provider," that "experienced a network disruption resulting in impact," adding: "We're reviewing our network redundancy options to find ways to prevent this problem from happening again."
You will need to reboot your PC once, twice, or thrice to pick up the connectivity changes, if you were affected by today's outage.
k that, I'm going the pub shortly 
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