Forum Discussion
Moving items within shared mailboxes makes outlook 2016 crash
Hello Microsoft Community
In our company we use shared mailboxes. All 50 users of our company have one specific shared mailbox synchronized in their local outlook 2016 application. In this Mailbox we receive orders from customers and other information from customers, so the users work very frequently in this mailbox. They edit subjects, the delete and attach e-mails and they move emails from the inbox to subfolders.
Now our problem, which we already have like half a year, is that when a user moves emails to a subfolder inside this mailbox, outlook crashes 90% of the time. so you have to imagine the user having to move 30 e-mails from inbox to subfolder, the user works with an opened task manager so he can move an e-mail, shutdown the outlook process since it's not responding anymore and then restart outlook and do the same 30 times. work which should only take 5 seconds of time takes now 15 minutes of time.
the other problem is that not all users always have the same view of the mailbox, one user can see an edited subject already while another one still has the old subject but that's a minor problem, but we really need to fix the crashing problem and I don't know what to try anymore.
we're using outlook 2016 and Exchange Online.
Did someone also have this problem and knows how to solve it? Thanks!
5 Replies
- Crimson CastellonCopper ContributorYeah, sounds like something to do with throttling and max concurrency. I think Exchange Online is at 20-27 max pull connections. Would it work for you if you switch it into a distro instead? But if it's like a queue where someone grabs it from the shared mailbox to work on it, you may need to think of a different approach.
Also curious on the 'half a year' part. Are you saying this has been working fine before? Or was that when you integrated Exchange Online? 50 people working with the same shared mailbox is a bit too much, you will have all sorts of performance issues. Get them to open the mailbox on demand, by either using a separate Outlook profile or even better, by using OWA.
- Hi Simon,
If your mailboxes are big and you have many changes at the same time, try to disable Outlook cache.- Simon StauberCopper Contributor
Hi Nuno
Thanks for your suggestion - but disabling cached mode makes outlook almost unusable
Hi Simon,
It depends your Internet connection and as Vasil said you can use OWA as well.