Shared Mailboxes and Cached Mode in Outlook

http://communified.net/archive/2009/05/08/caching-shared-additional-mailboxes-in-outlook-2007.aspx

As I understand it, unless you specifically follow the steps in the article posted by ThorinO, then the only mailbox that will be in cached mode is your own mailbox. Additional mailboxes will always run in on-line mode unless you set those registry keys to cause them to be cached. Are you seeing some behavior that leads you to believe that the additional shared mailboxes are being cached?

Only your own mailbox is Cached,  the aditional mailboxes from exchange are online so there is nothing to do.

Thanks guys.

Just to confirm, in Outlook 2007 SP2, even if my Outlook is set to Cached mode, any additional mailboxes I have will be in Online with Exchange?

Does anyone know what the Cached settings under Outlook > Account Settings > Advanced > (DOwnload Shared Folders [excludes mail folders] refers to?

In Outlook 2007 SP2 and above, you can turn on and off the caching of shared folders using those settings instead of the registry entries mentioned in the first posted answer.  I didn't look that up when I posted my first response, because I haven't worked that much with folder caching, but here's a MS Knowledgebase article that describes this feature:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936247

This article contradicts what I thought was the default behavior - it says that the default is to CACHE the shared folders if cached mode is turned on for the main mailbox, not the opposite.  At any rate, the settings under Account Settings/Advanced for caching shared folders will control whether or not the data is cached. If you don't want the shared folders to be cached, then remove the checkmark from Download Shared Folders.

Thanks, the bit I was confused about was that in my Outlook 2007 SP2, it does indeed have an option to 'download shared folders' but it also says 'excludes mail folders' , so it's not entirely clear?

Anyone?

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