I'm looking for a way to keep the pop up message "The Windows Search Engine is currently disabled. Outlook will not be able to provide fast search results using the Instant Search functionality unless this service is running. Please Contact your administrator." from even showing up to begin with. But without actually turning on the Windows Search Engine, as we purposely disable Windows Search Engine and Indexing on our computers.
The user then can click Do no show this message again but I'd like to keep 1400 people from having to click that message when we roll this out. I'm just nice like that.
So far to solve this I put in a DWORD registry entry of DisableDownloadSearchPrompt with a hex value of 1 into key Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Search into the Default User registry hive (by doing a Load Hive... from another profile on the image I'm building and choosing the default user profile's NTUSER.DAT file)
Also tried to find something in the Outlook MSP admin file config options but came up empty. Though there are a lot of options in there so maybe I missed something.
Thanks for helping me save 1400 clicks!