AFAIK; you cannot force the Indexer. Connecting to it, and leaving the
computer idle while getting a coffee should get the Indexer started pretty
quick and depending on the pst-file size, get everything indexed.

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> Our search facility in Outlook 2007 is always reporting that there are
> unindexed items. The number of unindexed items remains around 4,400. We
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> upon performing any searches on this database at home. Thank you for any
> help.