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I agree with Dons6718: &nbsp;Cached Exchange Mode should not be used with roaming profiles because OST files can be very, very large (I've seen them as large as 20 or 30GB).
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I agree with Dons6718:  Cached Exchange Mode should not be used with roaming profiles because OST files can be very, very large (I've seen them as large as 20 or 30GB).

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Agreed. Roaming profiles can be a nightmare anyway and dragging a cached mailbox around makes them worse. The only alternative to not using them would be to set mailbox max size limits, which can create a whole other set of problems.
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Agreed. Roaming profiles can be a nightmare anyway and dragging a cached mailbox around makes them worse. The only alternative to not using them would be to set mailbox max size limits, which can create a whole other set of problems.

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Our company is currently using Windows 7 with Exchange 2013 along with a mixture of Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013. Are there any best practices regarding Windows Roaming profiles with Cached mode in Outlook.
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Greetings,


Our company is currently using Windows 7 with Exchange 2013 along with a mixture of Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013. Are there any best practices regarding Windows Roaming profiles with Cached mode in Outlook.

Outlook Cached mode and Windows Roaming profiles

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