6 tickets with Microsoft about various problems. I signed up for Office365 Business Premium about 3 months ago and have opened approx. Microsoft know about these major limitations for many many months… but do they provide the fixing functionality? And secondly allow Indexing on these local files. Microsoft should simply include functionality within File Explorer to restrict the search to Local files instead of searching the files over the internet. Strangely the solutions to fix the SLOW Search should be quite simple. Is there someone at the steering wheel of Microsoft interested in fixing these problems? Is this a joke or is Microsoft even interested in providing proper real world business solutions? I opened a ticket for “Office for Business” and the workaround I was told was to “close OneDrive”… and then do the search. If Office 365 for Business cannot do a “simple search task” and restrict the search to local files like this, is it really “Fit for Purpose” ?

And wait… and wait…īefore any Microsoft Support person replies to say they have tested this using a crummy test environment with a few GB in size (or likely less) please test this with using a normal business environment with at least 300 GB of files and hundreds of thousands of files and many thousands of folders… and also a reasonably slow internet connection. Any search you do has t access the internet… wait for the search to upload… queue up the search command on some server in the Cloud…. This is because if you use OneDrive for Business…. Now a simple search can take over 5 minutes. This is a simple everyday task that I do many times a day that used to take a maximum of a few seconds before signing up for Office 365 for Business. My files are stored locally on the fastest 1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 and should take less than 10 seconds for any search… and this is how searches used to work until I signed up for Office 365 for Business 2 months ago.īut I cannot restrict search using Windows File Explorer… to ONLY search my local files? 300 GB of them.Īll these files are stored locally as well as on the internet. All My Documents files are within OneDrive for business… approx. I have an i7 6 core computer and running Office 365 for Business. When I search for files using Windows File Explorer on Windows 10 it is agonizingly slow. Not Just SLOW Upload speeds that are a problem.Īgonizingly slow Simple Searches are just 'not fit for purpose' with OneDrive for Business

Onedrive download speed throttled