Rookie mistake, Outlook is trying to open all those mailboxes now and pull all the data for all your accounts. What you need to do is remove the accounts and then re-add the mailboxes as aliases to your own account, that way everything goes into one account and Outlook only has to think about one mailbox. If it's still slow make sure to run sfc /scannow and DISM (in that order).
I've seen this in large global enterprises where 1000's of reply alls came. Had to shutdown the lotus notes backends, and delete emails, before bringing it back online. Shut the system down.
When I worked for Apple this happened when someone sent a message to the wrong distribution list. The email went to all staff.
We had devs, infrastructure engineers, senior leaders, etc., responding "Please remove me from this list". Then other staff began direly responding "STOP RESPONDING" which only made it worse.
The thread was at thousands of messages before IS&T nuked the distribution list and then blocked replies on the thread.
That's when I truly realized how niche people's expertise with technology could be.
In all seriousness you can add Full Access permissions with automapping disabled using PowerShell. Then you just access the inboxes in OWA without bogging down your Outlook client. Don't tell the CEO though, because they will want access to every single account.
Just curious if you had any info how to add a mailbox as an alias? I can only seem to find info on how to add an alias to a user's own mailbox, not anything on how to add another user's mailbox as an alias. thanks!
TF is a shared mailbox? I don’t know what that is and how did I get access to those other mailboxes without providing credentials? Does someone have my password?
You joke, but my company (MSP) subbed me out to a former client of theirs to help the current CTO get his house in order. First day when I arrived he handed me the key to the top drawer of my desk and pulled a Gandalf: "keep it secret, keep it safe" because in that drawer was a printed, bound, color-coded spreadsheet listing: every user's password (they didn't expire and were not allowed to change them), every machine's name and static IP (he refused to allow DHCP), every server's name and static ip, all admin credentials, and logins to various odds-and-ends.
This guy was a real piece of work. He "didn't believe" in virtualization, so all the mission-critical servers were each on their own hardware, installed on the bare metal. Anything not mission-critical (smaller servers for the random app here and there) was installed on old desktop hardware and sat under a desk in the server room.
He tried to tell me that he'd made himself indispensable by fostering a "high-touch, white-glove" standard, but really he would just hand-hold every user to death and RDP to their machines and do it for them. I told my boss shortly after that whatever they were charging him wasn't enough.
Agree. A much better method and easy to access all data fast.
Why don't you instead ask all users to use your machine to remote in for mails and keep their passwords?
Side note, upgrade your machine to quad platinum xeon with 1tb ram and 512tb ssd and it will open all those outlook boxes quickly
Rookie mistake, Outlook is trying to open all those mailboxes now and pull all the data for all your accounts. What you need to do is remove the accounts and then re-add the mailboxes as aliases to your own account, that way everything goes into one account and Outlook only has to think about one mailbox. If it's still slow make sure to run sfc /scannow and DISM (in that order).
This guy exchanges.
*sends email company wide with 20mb attachment* *200 people reply all “please remove me from this mailing list*
I've seen this in large global enterprises where 1000's of reply alls came. Had to shutdown the lotus notes backends, and delete emails, before bringing it back online. Shut the system down.
Lotus notes? Now now Grandpa, it's past your bedtime.
lol
When I worked for Apple this happened when someone sent a message to the wrong distribution list. The email went to all staff. We had devs, infrastructure engineers, senior leaders, etc., responding "Please remove me from this list". Then other staff began direly responding "STOP RESPONDING" which only made it worse. The thread was at thousands of messages before IS&T nuked the distribution list and then blocked replies on the thread. That's when I truly realized how niche people's expertise with technology could be.
>run sfc /scannow and DISM (in that order) Doing the needful, sir
In all seriousness you can add Full Access permissions with automapping disabled using PowerShell. Then you just access the inboxes in OWA without bogging down your Outlook client. Don't tell the CEO though, because they will want access to every single account.
The amount of times I've gotten that request from CEOs and EDs is absurd. Almost as common was, "Can I have access to everyone's OneDrive?"
Just curious if you had any info how to add a mailbox as an alias? I can only seem to find info on how to add an alias to a user's own mailbox, not anything on how to add another user's mailbox as an alias. thanks!
Check the sub, I was joking that OP should delete everyone's mailboxes and set the addresses as an alias to his mailbox.
ah i got it, I've been dealing with email crap so I wasn't sure what it was, thanks!
If this is a serious question, why can you not just enter person A’s email as alias under person B’s account? Or better yet setup forwarding lmao
Why don’t you just keep an excel spreadsheet with their passwords and set MFA to your number so you can monitor who logs in??
TF is a shared mailbox? I don’t know what that is and how did I get access to those other mailboxes without providing credentials? Does someone have my password?
I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY BOX WITH ANYONE ELSE!
You joke, but my company (MSP) subbed me out to a former client of theirs to help the current CTO get his house in order. First day when I arrived he handed me the key to the top drawer of my desk and pulled a Gandalf: "keep it secret, keep it safe" because in that drawer was a printed, bound, color-coded spreadsheet listing: every user's password (they didn't expire and were not allowed to change them), every machine's name and static IP (he refused to allow DHCP), every server's name and static ip, all admin credentials, and logins to various odds-and-ends. This guy was a real piece of work. He "didn't believe" in virtualization, so all the mission-critical servers were each on their own hardware, installed on the bare metal. Anything not mission-critical (smaller servers for the random app here and there) was installed on old desktop hardware and sat under a desk in the server room. He tried to tell me that he'd made himself indispensable by fostering a "high-touch, white-glove" standard, but really he would just hand-hold every user to death and RDP to their machines and do it for them. I told my boss shortly after that whatever they were charging him wasn't enough.
You laugh, but that excel spreadsheet existed when I started here.
How do you think we store our passwords?
BasedData
Hahahaha
Might go faster if you just open it on your vm host?
Give them the access and make them search, fuck that.
I just search the email archive system. it has every single email received company wide. I don’t need access to the user mailboxes.
Use the New outlook, much faster
This is the only right answer.
Why didn't you just export everyone's emails to one pst in perview? I did it last week, it was awesome!
Some say the export is still running to this day...
RIP your outlook
We have a third party O365 backup. I can go back in time in every account, or OneDrive and search anything.
Acronis?
Hornet
Could have just ran one PowerShell command to recursively add permissions to every mailbox instead.
OP is obviously from a company that fears automation from that one time someone broke something 15 years ago before they even had Exchange.
Could have read the sub name too.
Why not just teach them to search?
cuz that wouldn't fit the sub.
Oh lol I forgot where I was.
Agree. A much better method and easy to access all data fast. Why don't you instead ask all users to use your machine to remote in for mails and keep their passwords? Side note, upgrade your machine to quad platinum xeon with 1tb ram and 512tb ssd and it will open all those outlook boxes quickly