For Exchange accounts, iOS Mail can automatically download only the most recent messages, mail up to a month old, or all mail. Make iPhone Mail Sync More, All or Less Mail To pick how many days of recent mail to synchronize with an Exchange account in iPhone Mail.
Toby wells wrote: Two years ago yes But these days we are paying around 65 Euro for a 240GB SSD. OS X, Apps and odds and ends is 35GB, even with a 50GB Outlook file we have a lot of space left But thats relative to our policy of no data on devices. Good point on the cost of SSDs dropping. Wish I could just pop some of those in our aging Mac Air fleet! Even with a large drive I just don't see the point in syncing everything. Seems like there is more potential for sync errors. It will use more bandwidth and take longer when setting up Outlook for the first time. Outlook might have better performance with just a partial sync, but maybe not if they designed it right.
Ryanw wrote: toby wells wrote: Two years ago yes But these days we are paying around 65 Euro for a 240GB SSD. OS X, Apps and odds and ends is 35GB, even with a 50GB Outlook file we have a lot of space left But thats relative to our policy of no data on devices. Good point on the cost of SSDs dropping. Wish I could just pop some of those in our aging Mac Air fleet!
Even with a large drive I just don't see the point in syncing everything. Seems like there is more potential for sync errors. It will use more bandwidth and take longer when setting up Outlook for the first time. Outlook might have better performance with just a partial sync, but maybe not if they designed it right. Whats stopping you upgrading the MacBook Air.these aren't much more than a 2.5in SATA drive, we have used them in a lot of units. I cant remember the last time I even thought about preserving bandwidth;-) Not since I was using ISDN dialup in 1997. Outlook brings mail in from new to old so when migrating a user or setting up a new laptop for them they rarely notice their old mail isn't there for a few hours I have a lot of users with 35-40GB mailboxes, the new version of Outlook manages these without an issue, true the old Outlook 2011 would have fallen over but thats 6 year old code so to be expected.
Toby wells wrote: Whats stopping you upgrading the MacBook Air.these aren't much more than a 2.5in SATA drive, we have used them in a lot of units. I cant remember the last time I even thought about preserving bandwidth;-) Not since I was using ISDN dialup in 1997. Outlook brings mail in from new to old so when migrating a user or setting up a new laptop for them they rarely notice their old mail isn't there for a few hours I have a lot of users with 35-40GB mailboxes, the new version of Outlook manages these without an issue, true the old Outlook 2011 would have fallen over but thats 6 year old code so to be expected Thanks for the link to those OWC drives. I've been hesitant to go with 3rd party SSD upgrades on the Mac Airs, but doing a bit of research now there are actually more options out there than I thought. These look pretty good too.
It still feels wrong to have to throw $150+ of parts and labor into older machines just to get Outlook working right, when the Windows version does not have that issue. I'm glad Microsoft seems committed to getting things platform neutral now at least and realize that will probably take years to actually achieve complete parity. That is awesome you don't worry about preserving bandwidth.
I'm in an education environment here and gigabit Internet is no where to be found. We run all kinds of things to optimize our Internet bandwidth. Good to hear that Outlook 2016 can handle those large mailboxes without issue!
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I can confirm that this issue still exists (and i battle with it for my clients daily) It is a total nightmare and the only reason i can think microsoft will not do this is to cripple mac users. The only way around it is to have a large SSD and take the hit on space or go to windows outlook which supports caching whats amazing is on the mac i cannot find any single client that supports caching and exchange.
This makes macs ultimately useless for business users who need a cloud solution such as O365!
Microsoft on Saturday apologized for a three-day partial outage of Outlook.com and said the email service was back up and running, only to note hours later that problems still plagued some customers. Early Saturday, the Redmond, Wash., company said it had Outlook.com's issues, which stemmed from a failure in a caching service of Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), the popular synchronization service widely used to sync smartphones and tablets with company email, contacts and calendars stored on Microsoft Exchange Server systems. 'We want to apologize to everyone who was affected by the outage, and we appreciate the patience you have shown us as we worked through the issues,' Microsoft said in a note appended to its. Further reading: On Wednesday, Outlook.com, the SkyDrive cloud storage service and the Peoples contacts application that began around 10 a.m. While the Peoples problem was fixed about five hours later, SkyDrive's was not fully resolved until Thursday around 4 p.m. Some users of Outlook.com, however, were unable to access email on mobile devices that relied on EAS - a category that includes iPhones, whose iOS uses EAS for synchronization - until around 4:30 a.m. During the outage, Microsoft said, the cache service failure 'caused these devices to receive an error and continuously try to connect to our service.
This resulted in a flood of traffic that our services did not handle properly.' Microsoft said it had already taken steps to prevent similar problems in the future. 'We have made two key changes. One that involved increasing network bandwidth in the affected part of the system, and one that involved changing the way error handling is done for devices using Exchange ActiveSync.' The cache flood problem Microsoft described sounded reminiscent of the that the in iOS 6.1-powered iPhones and iPads which affected not only on-premise Exchange servers within enterprises, but also Microsoft's own infrastructure, including its Office 365 subscription service.
But Outlook.com's problems were not completely behind it Saturday morning. Around 2:30 p.m. ET, Microsoft again on the status board, saying, 'A small percentage of mobile users may experience intermittent issues while syncing email.' Microsoft said the problem was resolved at around 8 a.m. The Outlook.com outages were an embarrassment to Microsoft for multiple reasons, including a boast the week before that its Office 365 cloud-based service exceeded 99.9% uptime each of the last four quarters, and new attacks against rival Google Gmail in another run of its that kicked off Aug. Microsoft touts its own Outlook.com as an alternative to Gmail. In fact, the latest Outlook.com outage was the second this year within weeks of a new Scroogled attack.
In mid-March, about five weeks after a different Scroogled round, Microsoft's online email service. Outlook.com has logged numerous interruptions in the last 60 days, including on June 14 and 27; July 1, 2, 3, 11, 12-14 and 25-26; and the event that began Aug. Covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at, on or subscribe to. His email address is.