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Jan 24, 2017
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 probl...
- Jan 25, 2017
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?
Jan 24, 2017
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
TonyRedmond
Jan 25, 2017MVP
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?
- Jan 25, 2017Yeap, it's a shared MailBox...they are using that shared mailbox just because of delegation (SendAs)...something that can also be done with a Group, so this is a great advice and I'm going to suggest to my customer. Thanks Tony!