Misserable Upgrade to office 365 and OL13

I had a great deal of problems with Office 365 due to it's inability to be stable when there are macros involved in the existing Office documents on the local machine.

It sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't! I put it down to the fact that Office 365 (which operates "on-line" if you are connected to the Internet at the time) often detects errors in the upload /download of data for the Office applications. These are probably transmissions errors. As soon as the Office 365 app detects the error in a file, it assumes it is corrupted data, marks the file as "protected" and REMOVES  all the unreadable data (which is always the macros)!

I confirmed this with Microsoft (after waiting 45 mins on the phone). They stated that having Office 386 desktop version would overcome this problem, but I was not prepared to spend an extra $400 for that! They no longer support macros (stating that everything should be written as "Add-In"s now).

I received a refund from Microsoft of $119 for the subscription, removed it from my machine and reverted to Office 2010 and it is running FLAWLESSLY :-)

With your problem, maybe there are corruption issues in the exchange of data in Outlook. I would try disconnecting from the Internet then repeat your processes and see if they work OK, using the desktop (internally installed) versions of Office 386.

If they do, then there lies the problem. You COULD simply process locally and connect after completion to the internet to update the files stored in the cloud.

This is all supposition and will need to be tested.

The location of your PST files is irrelevant since THE Office 386 Outlook easily locates them from the settings of your previous Office application (Outlook).

A fix I found (but it is rempoarary) is to deactivate the Office  365 for your machine through your Microsoft Office account on-line, UNINSTALL Office 365 from your local machine via "Control Panel/Programs and Features" (you must do both), and then
re-install Office 365. You must then finally re-activate the account (whew). Everything works for a day or so until corruption is assumed by the Office processes again, and everything goes haywaire (macros deleted, VBA functionality removed etc.).

I re-installed fully 6 times in three weeks then gave up. I was lucky to get my money back, though. I was at day 29 of the 30 day "satisfaction" period before refunds are refused. Believe me, Office 2010 is the way to go at the momnet, otherwise purchase Office 365 for DESKTOP and avoid Office 365 (subscription) like the plague.
(You will missout on the ability of being able to install on up to 5 PCs though).

OL web app to sync my pop accounts  Are referring to outlook.com ?
The indexing feature works like a champ.  Well, with the upgrade, that stopped and OL took forever to load and the search is useless  The O/S is responsible for indexing.. go to control panel and rebuild your indexes
Microsoft outlook Error while archiving folder in store some items cannot be copied
You should be able to spot these and move them manually if needed.

David, Yes Outlook.com, I have reset and restarted all indexes and associated services and have no idea how I can manually tell what is wrong...not sure what error even means.

Prodigy, I thought I Had desktop, I will look into that later and will try a clean install!

Desktop should be OK, but "Subscription" Office 365 is touchy.

I had another thought.  I just moved the PST file over...should i have imported it?

Pat

Yes.....

Because I have Outlook with and active exchange sync with outlook.com it says that I can't import from a pst.    I might go crazy figuring this out.  I need to keep email history, but this is nuts.  I have figured out how to make POP accounts behave like exchange accounts, but can't get it import the info from my pst.

Sorry that it took so long to get back to this.  I have had numerous issues.

Thanks Pat8635.

For the record (in case others read the question in the future), what was the eventual action which rectified your problem?

Cheers
Chris

Just a straight import to desktop ol13 then deleting account from account settings then setting up outlook.com account.