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Ben Killoy
Brass Contributor
Sep 06, 2016

Sync Issues

I have an end user who is on Outlook 2016 with on-premise exchange and we here inbox only updates when I click "Update Folder" in send/receive ribbon.  

 

I tried cleaining the local cache on the inbox folder and let it rebuild as I found one article saying that this was a known issue.  

 

But the issue came back once it was fully synced again.  

 

I am stuck and what tricks to use to help troubleshoot, I hate rebuilding profiles as they are big distruption to the users day while their mailbox is downloading.  

 

Any ideas

  • Ben Killoy's avatar
    Ben Killoy
    Brass Contributor
    Putting it into safe mode actually made it stop working and even without safe mode it wasn't connecting.

    I did check at the file location of and notice our Carbonite was grabbing this file to back up and I think this was causing conflict on the sync.

    Once I stopped syncing it from carbonite it came back.

    • VasilMichev's avatar
      VasilMichev
      MVP

      Ah yes, forgot to mention disabling AV/scanning/backup software :)

    • Gideon Kay's avatar
      Gideon Kay
      Brass Contributor
      It sounds to me that it's switched to work offline mode. Go through the tabs (I'm not in front of a pc) and check that work offline is not enabled

      Gideon
  • Try running Outlook in Safe mode or recreating the profile. How big is the OST?

    • Ben Killoy's avatar
      Ben Killoy
      Brass Contributor

      7GB's so I try to hold the profile restore as a last resort

       

      I haven't tried safe mode I will try that real quick

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