Can’t get mail in Outlook 2011 for Mac from Microsoft Exchange Server

I recently installed Office 365 produces on my MacBook Pro (Oct 2013). I'd like to use Outlook to sync with my work files on our Microsoft Exchange Server, but am having problems.  I set up the account, can see that Outlook shows status as connected to the server.  When I check on progress it displays that email, contacts, calendar appointments, etc are downloading with actual numbers of those items counting toward the total to be downloaded.  And then the status indicator for mail displays "this folder is up to date."  PROBLEM IS... that nothing appears in any of my mail folders (Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Deleted, etc). Nothing appears on my calendar nor in my contact files...even though it appears to be connected to the server and has completed a download of all those items.  What's up?  Any ideas on what my problem is?