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Question about Exchange Online limits in regards of Outlook connectivity
Hello all,
Just a quick question about Exchange Online limits: is there any limit in regards of how many times a EXO inbox can be configured in Outlook client? I have a customer that is having problems when an EXO inbox is configured in Outlook client more than 20 - 25 times? Does any of the Exchange Experts in the house know if this is a know limit? cc VasilMichev TonyRedmond
So it's a shared mailbox... and yes, once you start to ramp up the number of concurrent accesses to a shared mailbox, you start to encounter performance and other difficulties. Why would they use a shared mailbox for this purpose instead of an Office 365 Group, which will have its own synchronization (to the GST, not OST), and so avoid the issue?
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"When an EXO mailbox is configured in Outlook..." What precisely do you mean when a mailbox is configured? I am unaware of any situations where a configuration change (like changing a mailbox property) would count against some limit. But do tell us exactly what this person is doing so that we can all ponder the great unknown...
- Ey Tony, I mean configure Outlook to use a particular mailbox and this mailbox is configured in several PCs/Laptops. According to my customer, after configuring Outlook in 20-25 PCs/Laptops, they start seing th mailbox is not added to Outlook due to some kind of corruption of OST file
So it's a shared mailbox... and yes, once you start to ramp up the number of concurrent accesses to a shared mailbox, you start to encounter performance and other difficulties. Why would they use a shared mailbox for this purpose instead of an Office 365 Group, which will have its own synchronization (to the GST, not OST), and so avoid the issue?
- There are limits, however Microsoft is not publishing those publicly (and they removed the relevant cmdlets years ago). You can get the limits for on-prem Exchange on TechNet, they can serve as educated guess. For example https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff477612(v=exchg.141).aspx
Best i can do from mobile device, sorry :)
