Outlook 2013 / Office 365 Secondary mailbox download issues
Hi All, one of my user has a strange issue.
His own primary mailboxes work just fine.
His secondary/additional mailboxe has some stuff but it seems to be incomplete. Almost as if it cuts off after a certain date. all of the 'missing' emails are there in 365 webmail so it seems that outlook just doesn't DL them.
I looked at the Caching option is outlook2013 - i tried 3 months only then switched to no cache but that didn't make a difference. What should this be set to to obtain all emails from teh additional box?
what am i missing?
Note: the additional mailbox is about 20gb, while the users primary is about 5. not sure if that matters,.
His own primary mailboxes work just fine.
His secondary/additional mailboxe has some stuff but it seems to be incomplete. Almost as if it cuts off after a certain date. all of the 'missing' emails are there in 365 webmail so it seems that outlook just doesn't DL them.
I looked at the Caching option is outlook2013 - i tried 3 months only then switched to no cache but that didn't make a difference. What should this be set to to obtain all emails from teh additional box?
what am i missing?
Note: the additional mailbox is about 20gb, while the users primary is about 5. not sure if that matters,.
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FYI, if you do increase the size of the cache, it could take upwards of 5 or 6 hours for Outlook to sync a 20GB mailbox (if you have a GOOD connection -- with a slow connection it could take a day or two).
First of all, talk with the user(s) and see if you can bring the size of that mailbox down. 20GB is a bit too much, and forcing a stricter archiving policy will help a lot with Outlook performance. Speaking about archiving, what you are describing with the 'cut off after a certain date' hints that those messages might actually be moved to the archive, so where exactly in OWA he can access them, the primary mailbox or the archive one?
If it is not possible to bring down the size of that mailbox, switching to Online mode will probably be the best solution. The steps will depend on how exactly the mailbox is added. If it is added as additional account, simply turn of caching for it. It if is added as additional mailbox to the primary account (i.e. from Account settings -> More settings -> Advanced or via Full permissions with automapping), you need to clear the "download shared folders" checkbox under Account settings -> More settings -> Advanced.
Lastly, another thing to check is for any synchronization filters set for that mailbox or specific folders. You can easily check for that if you go to Properties of any of the folders, then the Synchronization tab and check the statistics box. If those dont match, either a filter is applied or the local cached copy is broken/incomplete.
If it is not possible to bring down the size of that mailbox, switching to Online mode will probably be the best solution. The steps will depend on how exactly the mailbox is added. If it is added as additional account, simply turn of caching for it. It if is added as additional mailbox to the primary account (i.e. from Account settings -> More settings -> Advanced or via Full permissions with automapping), you need to clear the "download shared folders" checkbox under Account settings -> More settings -> Advanced.
Lastly, another thing to check is for any synchronization filters set for that mailbox or specific folders. You can easily check for that if you go to Properties of any of the folders, then the Synchronization tab and check the statistics box. If those dont match, either a filter is applied or the local cached copy is broken/incomplete.
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Hey guys, unfortunately the "download shared folders" was set to the correct position, so that wasn't it.
Im starting to think that outlook just doesn't display it correctly.
The user has the additional inbox categorized by SUBJECT ( see pics attached) When you hover your mouse over the category (example: VDARA) it shows 70 items. when you expand th7 iat group it only shows tems. At the same time the other groups that should be listed below that are also not there, the slider ends?
Almost as if this outlook view is corrupt? Does this make any sense>?
thanks!
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Im starting to think that outlook just doesn't display it correctly.
The user has the additional inbox categorized by SUBJECT ( see pics attached) When you hover your mouse over the category (example: VDARA) it shows 70 items. when you expand th7 iat group it only shows tems. At the same time the other groups that should be listed below that are also not there, the slider ends?
Almost as if this outlook view is corrupt? Does this make any sense>?
thanks!
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So the "Digital" account -- is this a SHARED mailbox on Office 365?
I would suspect that it is -- and I would also suspect that this user is not designated as an "Owner" of that Shared Mailbox. In which case he only has access to messages for which he has permission to view.
If he does have permission to view all messages in the mailbox, then it is possible that the view is filtered. To clear the filters, click on VIEW from the top menu and then select "Reset View". Sometimes the filtering will not clear, in this case, start Outlook from the command line as follows:
outlook.exe /cleanviews
I would suspect that it is -- and I would also suspect that this user is not designated as an "Owner" of that Shared Mailbox. In which case he only has access to messages for which he has permission to view.
If he does have permission to view all messages in the mailbox, then it is possible that the view is filtered. To clear the filters, click on VIEW from the top menu and then select "Reset View". Sometimes the filtering will not clear, in this case, start Outlook from the command line as follows:
outlook.exe /cleanviews