Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook
I recently came across an issue where an administrative assistant needed to search her boss’s huge mailbox while it was attached in Online mode to her Outlook profile. Normally, Outlook search will work for certain folders (like Calendar and Contacts) because it caches those folders from attached mailboxes so that they can be indexed; however in this case the amount of items in each of those folders was either too large or something else was going on and search just wasn’t working.
After searching online, I was able to find out about the CacheOthersMail registry value which can be set in...
Outlook issue: duplicates everywhere Once the Google Sync tool completes the first synchronization of the mailbox you will see a replica of your Google Mail inbox in the mail folders pane in Outlook. Aside from the built-in Outlook folders (of which Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items are mapped to Inbox, Sent Mail, and Trash respectively in the cloud, there is also a new [Archived] folder created in Outlook mapping to All Mail online) you will see each of your Google Mail labels show up as a folder in the Outlook folder list. The Contacts and Calendar will also...
When disabling Cached Exchange Mode always remember to navigate to the mailbox’s OST file and either rename or remove the file from that location. This needs to be done because for some reason Outlook will not switch completely to “Online” mode if it finds the OST file that it was previously using on that profile. I haven’t confirmed this with Microsoft and I am not sure why this happens, but my best guess is that Outlook just starts using the settings saved in the profile since the last time it was closed and maybe it doesn’t refresh its “Should I...