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we have it enabled, it provides the best user experience. However, i'd rather have it disabled, as it bloats the profile and if your separating user and office VHDX it complicates the timing of restores. I think Microsoft is working on new programming of office365 to correct the slowness of online mode, which tends to just be slower right now, when clicking on different emails/windows in outlook.

lol

recommended for best user experience and is how someone would run it locally...

Yes with Exchange online or exchange server in the cloud (far away) plz use cache mode. No matter if it outlook 2019 or outlook 365

Awful user experience without cache mode when using Exchange Online.

https://jasonhowe.net/2021/05/28/prevent-outlook-from-creating-offline-ost-cache/ - do i need this setting if i am using exchange cache? doesn't it conflict since it blocks from creating an OST or am i misunderstanding... i see this setting at the client site i am working at now.

that setting is disabling cache mode

I starting setting up Cache mode like this now. "this will ensure that if the container fails to mount, outlook sessions will operate in online mode, and not try to download cache data to an undesirable location. Ensure that no other policies control cached mode" https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2021/06/how-to-implement-outlook-cached-mode-with-fslogix-profiles.html

@Ray Davis so you do set the registry setting?

weird, i've never set that, just configured the cache mode in the normal outlook GPO

I used to do that. But then I wanted some kind of failback.

seems like you would only use that, if you had a mixed user base...and the standard for some userse was online mode, which wouldnl't use fslogix profiles....and hte rest of the users would use fslogix containers and cached mode

yea, I stumbled on it here Citrix UPM and FSLogix Containers (jkindon.com) . Then I was like wait what is that. So I found the link above and put it in a test mode for month with a old company, It worked good.

microsoft just needs to fix online mode responsiveness, then we dont have to worry about this OST garbage

True, do you have a link on that? I would like read on that or what they are doing.

i read it somewhere a couple weeks ago, let me try to find it

No worries if not. I can pop in some google searches if needed.

Thanks man

oh so thats only for backup purposes. okay, i don't have to use that.

it's for some reason if your fslogix profiles don't mount, users dont create an ost in their new temp profile, which will most likely fill up space and could render the VDA useless

Well, not like a normal backup. It will mount the container like normal. But in a event the container can't be mounted. As it happens more with new releases. It will failback to online mode so the user can still use outlook.

highly doubt our users would continue with a temp profile though, not having the profile would be the sky falling

i think i am going to pass on that setting. can't we just clean the VDI up if its running out of space

not without disrupting users

this setting should be disabled for windows 2019, running office 2019 correct?

Any roam to search isn’t needed with 2019 and above. MS will handle it. I have not validated what I’m about to say but it’s in the notes now. FSlogix is supposed to ignore that now on those Operating systems.

Thanks Ray!

they using 2201 and higher?

they are on 2.9.7654.46150 from 6/2021

I don't understand how it is working