Emails appear in Outlook 2011 1-3 minutes after my iPhone

Original Title: "slow outlook 2011 with exchange"

 

I have an iMac running Outlook 2011 and a VM with Win-7 & Outlook 2010. My colleague has a similar setup and we both get the email near-instantly in 2010 (almost always 5 seconds behind my iPhone) and there is anything from a 1 to 3 minute delay for 2011 to get the email. It's recently started to become a real pain for reasons I won't get in to here. It's been like this across the last three iterations of OS X and no single office update has helped the issue.

I also have my own macbook pro with 2011 and 2010 and I get the same problem regardless of the network I am connected to (and there have probably been hundreds), so it's not an issue local to the internet connection at our office.

I've stopped using 2011 on my MBP as it takes an absolute age to sync with my google mail accounts (and it doesn't sync with the calendars either) and this then interferes with getting work email. It's a bit useless really. I've switched to using a browser for my email on this particular machine.