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timmalley
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Horizon with Outlook Office 365

We are moving to Horizon 7.5 with a new install from our 6.X environment (new hardware etc...)  We currently are using persona mgmt for our users in our 6.x setup and use Microsoft 365 exchange for our email and local Outlook client. We run into more issues with Outlook just bringing the machine to a crawl or error messages stating outlook trying to connect .....

Going forward with our new build of 7.5 we are not doing persona as it has been a pain over all and going back to a persistent disk for profiles.  We want to make Outlook not be a pain or hog and unfortunately we can not move away from the client as our users will not adapt.  Looking for some best practices or tips that others have done to keep Outlook running smooth. We have called support on both VM and Microsoft and other than cache mode on from Microsoft they offer no real help. We could not turn on cache because persona does not like large files or files exceeding 10K.  We put policy on our email to purge anything older than 6 months.

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BenFB
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timmalley
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Hi Ben - Yes we have but we are not O365  ProPlus just using hosted exchange from Microsoft and local Outlook. We dont have App Vol and not using Environment Manager.

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techguy129
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We run Outlook in cache mode and redirect the .OST file to a network share. Each user has a personal share and we point the ost to that. Its not recommended by Microsoft but we haven't had any issues thus far and its been running for 2 years.

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Mjahh
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Use FSLogix Office365 containers. It's not very expensive and resolves your issue.

You can Roam the cache/Windows Search DB and even Onedrive files.

We only cache the primaire mailbox for like 6 months. The rest of the e-mail the user can find online by clicking "show more items on server" within Outlook.

The shared mailbox we do not cache. We are testing now without Windows Search because it takes a big load on the platform with new users. This seems to work also very well.

Just download the trial and test it out. Very easy to configure.

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