My company is a SaaS provider with more than 1000 customers. We are using a hosted Exchange 2010 system provided by a 3rd party. In addition to separate email accounts for each employee, we also have a "Support@" mailbox into which all email correspondence with our customers in received and stored. This account has a large folder tree with more than 1500 folders (including archives for customers who are no longer using our service.) The overall size is about 4GB and 100,000+ messages.
We have two support people who both have their own email accounts and who also are supposed to have access to the Support@ account so that they can respond to customer support requests, then create folders (for a new customer) and move messages around. The Support Inbox is generally empty since we handle all emails as soon as they arrive.
One support person is using Outlook 2010 - he has two Exchange accounts configured. The other is using Outlook 2007. She has the Support account configured as an "Additional mailbox to open" when she starts Outlook (since 2007 apparently doesn't support 2 Exchange accounts.) Both of these employees are configured in Exchange to have "Full Access" and "Send As" permissions. Within Outlook, both employees are also configured as "Owners" of the Support mailbox.
The problem we are having is that this is not working. The two employees can see the Support mailbox but they don't have full access to it. For the guy using Outlook 2010, his system started to synchronize but then stopped about 10% in and won't continue. For the gal using Outlook 2007, she can see most of the tree. But if I create a new folder, she doesn't see it and she can't move messages into folders.
For both employees, if they use Outlook Web Access, everything works correctly. They can move messages around and see them immediately. So this strongly suggests that security is correctly configured in Exchange, and that this is an Outlook problem on their local computers.
Now, I'm having a slightly different problem. I run Outlook 2011 on a Mac. I also have Full Access/Owner rights to the Support mailbox. I can see the full tree; I can create folders and move messages around with no problems. However, approx. every 1-2 minutes, I get a Mac beach ball (equivalent of the Windows hourglass) and everything locks up for about 10 seconds. Then I can keep working. Of course, the Mac uses individual files for each messages, instead of a monolithic PST file; not sure why this would matter...
Our email hosting company is now trying to tell us that the problem is we have too many folders and there is a limit of 500 folders. This doesn't make sense. These problems actually started about 4 weeks ago after they did some reconfiguration work on their servers. Before then, we had basically the same number of folders and messages and were not having this problem (maybe we added 10 folders since then; lots of messages though.)
We're at our wits end with this. This is our whole support operation and our support team need to be able to access folders and messages. I think this is some kind of synchronization problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I will cross-post this request in the Outlook Forums as well, since it may be an Outlook issue.
Dan
I work in IT and in the last 2 weeks, I've seen a really nasty issue/bug with Outlook 2011 for Mac. The only commonality was that both users had very large "Deleted Items" folders. We have an Exchange 2010 environment and the client OS is Mac OS X 10.7.3.
Case #1, 2 weeks ago:
The user uses the "Deleted Items" folder to store email for reference, as they would with any other folder. At some point, the deleted items began duplicating and caused the mailbox size to grow rapidly out of control. Eventually, the user wasn't able to send or receive mail due to mailbox limits we have in place, and it's at that time the user alerted us to the issue. At this time, the user had 98k items in the "Deleted Items" folder. We ran a deduplication tool on the mailbox, but as soon as the Outlook 2011 client was opened again, the duplication happened again. We tried a few other things, but the duplication would happen again as soon as Outlook 2011 was fired up. We even tried uninstalling/reinstalling Outlook 2011, but that didn't help either. We ended up nuking the entire mailbox and manually importing items from a .pst.
Case #2, happening now:
The user also uses the "Deleted Items" folder for storage. He filed a helpdesk ticket stating that his Deleted Items folder is spiraling out of control and is duplicating items over and over again. He re-created his Identity Database but the problem kept happening. He's running the latest version,14.2.2, and installed the update prior to the issue occuring.
My question: What can we do to fix this? Is this a known-issue?
1. I like to send some mails for a later time. At the older version was a button. by outlook 2011 for mac is nothing.
2. when i get a mail, that not direktley vor me (weitergeleitet) i dont se anything. And pdfs i can not seeing. were are the mistake?
Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 running on MAC OSx Snow Leopard Version 10.6.8
Version 14.2.2 (120421) – latest available updates applied
Email account configured in Exchange Mode – Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2
The Inbox was synchronizing with the Exchange server (new messages were arriving and messages could be sent) except that no attachment could be downloaded or opened. The status bar message was displaying „ Downloading attachements 0 of 14 "
We tried to restart, update, reboot even to repair the database, afterwards still the same message appeared.
Next, we cleared the cache for the inbox folder. The messages disapeared from the inbox and start synchronising again. After a while, when the sync was finished we only found 200 emails out of approx. 4000. After checking the webmail, we were surprised to find that the emails were missing there also.
Could this clear cache operation determine the email loss?
What about the initial error - Downloading attachements 0 of 14?
Operations were made in the same network with the server therefore no connection problems arised. Network interface WLAN.
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