Office 365 Outlook Online Rant
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I have always used the Unread Mail folder added to favorites in my Outlook programs. Since I started Office 365, it would appear that the search folder support is not supported in OWA 2013 (Exchange 2013) according to this website, http://www.msoutlook.info/question/763.
This is part of my issue checking email using OWA as my rules places emails in 2nd - 4th level folder and do not show up. I understand that this is normal behavior on the Desktop app, OWA and of course the Android app. OWA image:
.This was another reason I deleted all my rules and recreated only 2, as you can see Cron is easily seen in the folder list. And if I use OWA on any device including mobile I find it easier to use if I request the desktop app. I am still considering how to run rules that aren't based on multi-level folders, but that will make it a really long list!
So not much of a workaround, but better than nothing.
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Does anyone else actually create folders in folders while using Outlook?
Seems my main beef with OWA is that you can't see if you have mail if it is more than one level deep as seen in the screen shot in the above post. Cron Jobs is one folder level deep from inbox and the folder Cron is nestled 2 folders deep in the Our Web Server folder.
The irony is that I was EXPECTING OWA to act DIFFERENTLY than Outlook. In Outlook there is the same issue with nestled folders and to combat that, one can add a Favorite called Unread Mail which shows the folders that have unread mail in them and OWA doesn't have it.
So until someone has a way to mimic the favorite "unread mail" I will refrain from creating any rules.
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Ah I see. Yes people do that and we just expand those menus to see what is there. I do that all the time.
Yes, OWA's job is to mimic Outlook. That is their goal.
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I am surprised that no unread view is available though.
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From what I read it was available in the last Exchange version but not the newest one. I would like to say on a tablet having to expand each folder and sub folder to find if there is mail it quite annoying and not good use of time.
However this has changed the way I use Outlook for the better. I am moving more to OneNote and Evernote for archiving and plan on using rules for mail that can wait a day or two to be read.
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I've come to love OneNote. @Minion-Queen made me start using it.
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I finally moved my OneNote to OneDrive for business. Weird that OD is inside SharePoint or something strange like that. I had to do a convoluted dance to get OneDrive for business to show up on my W8.1. I saved the websites in Evernote that helped me get there.
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@technobabble said:
I finally moved my OneNote to OneDrive for business. Weird that OD is inside SharePoint or something strange like that. I had to do a convoluted dance to get OneDrive for business to show up on my W8.1. I saved the websites in Evernote that helped me get there.
It's great that it's inside of SharePoint. You have control over the back-end of your syncing application.
When you mention archiving, are referring to email archiving? Moving it to OneNote converts the email to an editable format, which would likely not hold up well in court. If you're looking at ideas for email handling, check out Inbox Zero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9UjeTMb3Yk
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@alexntg Thanks for legal info, I didn't realize that.
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Yup. It's SharePoint so you can get hosted or host your own. Very flexible.
