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BillR
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Re: HUGE PROBLEM: Windows 11 booting to black screen with cursor
coastaleddie - Thanks for the idea. I had the exact same problem on my Surfacebook. Even went as far as doing a restore, keeping files, with no joy. I booted into Safe Mode (after a full power-off, hold SHIFT, then turn on the PC. Choose troubleshoot and startup modes, or something like that...), went into Device Manager and I had 2 "HID Sensor Collection V2" devices listed. I disabled them both, then did a restart and that fixed my problem. I guess that controls sensors on the device, so not sure how that will negatively affect me, but I don't use many sensors anyway, and I would prefer to actually SEE my screen, so I'll take that over the sensors. Thanks! Bill6.9KViews0likes0CommentsRe: The default mailbox size for Exchange Online E3 and E5 users is increasing from 50GB to 100GB
TonyRedmond Still seems to work with Outlook 2016 and 2019. "Deprecated" vs. discontinued, so maybe it partially works (?) (like my powershell commands that I'm supposedly not supposed to use anymore that still work great, but give me a bunch of annoying yellow-text warning messages). I haven't tried it with the 365 Click to Run yet. ...There's always some "purple smoke", as my team likes to call it, going on behind the scenes with Outlook!37KViews0likes1CommentRe: The default mailbox size for Exchange Online E3 and E5 users is increasing from 50GB to 100GB
TonyRedmond Good that you mentioned the foreground vs. background... I guess I forgot to mention that when we have users with large mailboxes/OSTs on high latency networks or heavy travelers (satellite or cell when traveling), we turn off Outlook Hybrid mode for them, because it totally hangs Outlook in cached mode. Add this key and set value to 1 to disable hybrid and run totally cached mode/sync: HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\ DWORD - hybrid!localcaching Cheers, Bill37KViews0likes4CommentsRe: The default mailbox size for Exchange Online E3 and E5 users is increasing from 50GB to 100GB
I totally agree with Tony. However, I'm not sure if Outlook has been optimized more for using cached mode in regards to large OST files, but it is very apparent that using a large OST file has less performance degradation than using a large PST file. We have supported execs with both large OST files and large PST files. OST performance has been good, where PST has been noticeably slower for some reason (folder enumeration and searches), and the horrors of OST/PST corruptions of the past, I feel, are mostly just in the past (whew). We've had pretty good luck with them over the past 10 years or so. Some other thoughts... I personally have a total of over 2 million messages in my Outlook view. I keep about one year of mail in my mailbox, syncing all to my OST (cached mode keep all). I have a PST file for every calendar year, and I set outlook to autoarchive everything older than a year to the previous year's PST. I keep all of my mail, because I refer to it here and there, and I have found that Outlook doesn't really do a good job of quickly searching across a ton of PST files with this much mail, so I use X1 client for my searches. (I'm not a reseller, just a user, but nothing beats it for searches, so I've used it, and we've used it at my company, for maybe 10-12 years). PS. I've supported Exchange/Outlook and even Exchange client since 4.0 beta. -A special thank you to Tony for publishing all of your awesome books and articles over the years, as they have greatly contributed to everyone's understanding of Exchange! -Bill Rupp37KViews0likes6CommentsRe: The default mailbox size for Exchange Online E3 and E5 users is increasing from 50GB to 100GB
Supposedly the OST and PST files can grow to be very large. By default, Outlook will only support 20 GB PST and OST files. However, if you modify the registry (we use Group Policy to do this, but you can manually do it as well), then you can increase the supported size. We have supported over 100GB PST files (OST files are the same file type). Here are the registry keys to add (based on Office version), now have fun with that :) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\PST MaxLargeFileSize REG_DWORD Decimal Value: 102400 (100 GB) WarnLargeFileSize REG_DWORD Decimal Value: 102400 (100 GB)53KViews0likes1Comment
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