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Public folders have disappeared in NEW outlook for Mac
- This is fun. "New" outlook - No Public Folders. "Old" outlook - No Search Results. Now I have to switch back and forth between outlook versions depending on whether I want to be able to search, or access public folders. Really looking forward to a microsoft self-driving car. My use of capital letters is intended. Fix your broken garbage and you'll get your Capital letters back.
Absolutely, this example of bad feature implementation on mac is beyond me. I guess this is just a secret approach of MS to scare people away from MacOS back to Windows, where software (which people did pay for!), actually works like intended. Given the time, which the Mac-Department from Microsoft needs to fix this (over two years now, still counting), I assume, that I won't see an actually satisfying Outlook on Mac before my retirement. And I'm retiring in 22 years.
I just had to switch back to "old" outlook because "new" outlook cannot create a new meeting from File | New while I'm reading email. Good news is, suddenly my search is working again in "old". Hopefully I won't have to re-enable "new" ever again. Gad, that "new" INTERFACE, yuk. If "new" is an entire rewrite, created to solve a problem, great, go for it. If "new" is just a reskin, I suggest microsoft lose a couple of thousand pounds of dead weight by scuttling that department. Aside from my recent Search issues (and the fact that "new" will eventually be FORCED on me), I have nothing but good things to say about "old", its a workhorse.
- I've been using new on my mac and going to the browser when I need to do something I can't.
Adding to what mskars said, it's a bad workaround for users who heavily rely on a grown hierarchy of public folders. it's just impossible to configure access to public folders in a user friendly way in the web interface, because *all* the subfolders have to be favorited by hand via outlook, one by one, to make them visible on the web interface.
not to mention that microsoft removed the administration of permissions on public folders via the GUI. I really want to know what they were thinking here...
