Exchange contacts not showing up in Spotlight

This is happening to me as well. Another question I am wondering is why are these programs (ical, mail, and contacts) using fetch instead of the push technology. Mail is only received at the interval specified, it is not pushed to the mail program like on the iphone.

I was going to ask this question as well. Suddenly not being able to spotlight search my contacts is a major drawback.

Same problem here. No ideas on how to fix this.

Same problem with me, not sure if it is working for anyone.

A temporary fix is to copy all exchange contacts to "on my mac". This doesn't duplicate on the exchange server and does not duplicate entries when emailing.

I am also wondering about push vs fetch. Has anyone else realized that messages, calendar items, and contacts are not being pushed. The programs are all fetching them off the server? Is this a bug? What interval do other people use to fetch their exchange mail?

It's using RPC over HTTP calls to the exchange server, not MAPI. From what I've seen, because of this and that it can't communicate via SMS like the iphone does, it's not going to support push probably ever. Entourage doesn't do push either because of this. It constantly has to check.

My Exchange contacts in Address Book are not showing up in Spotlight, what a let down.

As for Push email, it does work in Mail if you check use IDLE command in Advanced tap and uncheck "include when automatically checking for new message. This works for both Gmail and MobileMe.

This works for me, folks. I set up a new account in Contacts using my Exchange login and password and all my Exchange contacts loaded quickly (over 5,000) and appear in my Spotlight searches.

I did NOT originally ask to have my contacts synced with Exchange but tried it after reading this thread and owndering if it would work.

cclboss, that's not push. That's an imap only option where it maintains a connection to the server.

Thanks. I didn't know that it was an IMAP feather but the result's the same for a layman like me. Mail pops up in the mailbox instantly when it arrives.

Yes. I said that a few posts up. Mine are working fine.

I'm not trying to diminish your success, but no one I know has this working. None of the mac at work can do it, and none of my friends who's work also has exchange can search contacts via spotlight. No idea how yours is working for you.