Turn on or off Cached Exchange ModeĬlick Account Settings, and then click Account Settings. Note: Cached Exchange Mode is the default when you add an Exchange account.
Microsoft Terminal Services is installed Cached Exchange Mode is not available on computers that run Windows Server when Microsoft Terminal Services is installed. For more information, contact your Exchange administrator. Your Exchange server administrator has disabled this functionality Exchange administrators can disable this feature in Outlook. POP3 and IMAP accounts can’t use this feature. If the Cached Exchange Mode option is missing, one or more of the following might apply:Īn Exchange account doesn't exist in your Microsoft Outlook profile This feature requires your Outlook profile contain an Exchange account. Why isn’t the Cached Exchange Mode option available? On the Advanced tab, under Cached Exchange Mode Settings, check the options you want. To change whether shared folders or Public Folders are downloaded when Cached Exchange Mode is turned on, do the following:Ĭlick the Exchange account, and then click Change > More Settings. By default, when Cached Exchange Mode is turned on, a local copy of shared folders is downloaded to your computer.
Shared folders include Exchange Public Folders, SharePoint folders, or another person's Exchange folders when you’re using Delegate Access. Top of page Cached Exchange Mode and shared folders If you want to turn off Cached Exchange Mode, repeat the steps, but clear Use Cached Exchange Mode.īy default, 12 months of your email is available offline, but you can control how much mail is kept offline.
(If you're a Microsoft 365 subscriber with semi-annual updates, under Offline Settings, check Use Cached Exchange Mode to download email to an Outlook data file. Under Offline Settings, check Use Cached Exchange Mode. accounts default to Cached Exchange Mode and cannot be changed.Ĭlick File > Account Settings > Account Settings.Ĭlick the Exchange or Microsoft 365, and then click Change. We recommend always using Cached Exchange Mode with an Exchange or Microsoft 365 account. Does anyone have experience with these tools? Or am I making this far more complicated than needed? I'm open to all suggestions.Cached Exchange Mode is the default when you add an Exchange or Microsoft 365 account. The same goes for Outlook Redemption ( ). I also found a PowerShell tool called PowerMAPI ( ) but it's hard to find out if this works with Exchange 365. What to use for Exchange Server name? This weird guid you find after manually configuring Outlook with Exchange 365? Maybe the OCT is not the best option. Have the user start Outlook with the /importprf switch, and voila.īut now I'm already stuck at creating the. prf file, use VBscript to find the shared mailboxes the current user has access to and add these to the. In the pre Exchange 365 era, I would have used Microsoft's Office Customization Tool to create a basic. Now I need the find a way to add the extra accounts automatically to the Outlook profile.
The only way I know how to accomplish this, is by using extra Outlook accounts instead of using extra Outlook mailboxes. ost files a lot smaller, compared to the scenario where all shared mailboxes have the same cache period. For the primary mailbox I need to keep a local copy of about 6 months (for fast searching), but for the shared mailboxes one month would do. Nice.īut I also need to have seperate signatures for all mailboxes and I also need to be able to configure different local cache period settings.
With some tweaking (Set-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration), I can even have a copy of send items stored in the send items folder of the shared mailbox, so everyone is up to date of what is being send.
Using the default option to give these users full mailbox access to the shared mailboxes, that is easily and automatically accomplished. The majority of my users need access to one or more shared mailboxes to receive and to send e-mail. I'm in the process of reconfiguring Outlook 2016 clients with an Exchange 365 backend.