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Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Microsoft Tech Companion for Windows 8. Solution 2 — Try working on Offline and then on Online mode by switching between them. Solution 3 — To deal with the problem, you can start with clearing the Offline items from Outlook. As you know that you can use Outlook offline anytime with the help of the cached data it has stored.

This cached data not only helps you operate Outlook on offline mode, but also improves the performance. The problem arises when the offline items do not match with the online items, due to any sort of connectivity issues. So, the best option you are left with is to clear the offline items so that this issue could be resolved. Follow below-mentioned steps to do so:. Note : This will surely solve your problem.

But, this solution will remove your files locally, click on the Synchronization tab and there you will see the details about the offline and server folders. There you will see that offline items are zero, but Server still contains items. After performing this, open Outlook again so that Outlook can download all items from Exchange again.

Solution 4 — Try using Scanost. It is an inbuilt utility of MS Outlook, and you can find it at:. Now, you know where to find this utility in which version of Outlook, but before you run it, it is advisable to close all the running instances of Outlook. Solution 5 — As we have already discussed that due to the cached data, the offline and online data may mismatch, so to overcome with this issue it is advisable that you disable this option from the settings as below:.

By performing these methods, you can solve the update issue. When the removal is complete, click Close. This example removes the address list named Southeast Offices and all its children from under the North America address list.

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Remove-AddressList. To verify that you've successfully removed an address list, use either of the following procedures:. In the Exchange Management Shell, run the following command to verify that the address list isn't listed:. Hiding a recipient from address lists doesn't prevent the recipient from receiving email messages; it prevents users from finding the recipient in address lists.

The recipient is hidden from all address lists and GALs effectively, they're exceptions to the recipient filters in all address lists. If you want to selectively include the recipient in some address lists but not others, you need to adjust the recipient filters in the address lists to include or exclude the recipient. Hiding a mailbox from address lists also prevents Outlook from finding the mailbox in GAL when you create a new profile, or add an additional mailbox to an existing profile.

To add the hidden mailbox in Outlook, you can temporarily make the mailbox visible in address lists, configure Outlook, and then hide the mailbox from address lists again. Select the recipient that you want to hide from address lists, and then click Edit. Groups : On the General tab, select Hide this group from address lists. Resources : On the General tab, click More options , and then select Hide from address lists.

Public folders : On the General mail properties tab, select Hide from Exchange address list. By default, arbitration mailboxes and public folder mailboxes are hidden from address lists.

If you use the Set-Mailbox cmdlet to change this or any other setting for arbitration or public folder mailboxes, you need to include the Arbitration or PublicFolder switches. You can verify that you've successfully hidden a recipient from address lists by using any of the following procedures:. In the EAC, select the recipient, click Edit and verify the hide from address lists setting is selected. When you create or modify address lists in the EAC, the following recipient filter settings are available:.

Click Add rule and select one of the recipient properties from the drop down list:. If you selected Recipient container , a Select an organizational unit dialog box appears that allows you to select the container or OU in Active Directory. For other recipient properties, a Specify words or phrases dialog appears that allows you to add, edit and remove text values. Property values require an exact match.

Wildcards and partial matches aren't supported. For example, the value "Sales" doesn't match "Sales and Marketing". Multiple values of the same property use the or operator.

For example, "Department equals Sales or Department equals Marketing". Repeat the previous steps to configure more filters. Note that multiple properties use the and operator. For example, "Department equals Sales and Company equals Contoso". Preview recipients the address list includes : When you click this setting, a Preview dialog appears that shows you the recipients that are identified by the filters you configured. In the Exchange Management Shell, you can specify precanned recipient filters , or custom recipient filters , but not both at the same time.

You can specify multiple values separated by commas. Multiple values of the same property implies the or operator. For example, "Department equals Sales or Marketing or Finance". Hyphens - are required before all operators. Here are some of the most frequently used operators:. Exchange stores the filter in the RecipientFilter property with each individual statement enclosed in parentheses, but you don't need to enter them that way.

After you use the New-AddressList cmdlet to create an address list that uses custom recipient filters, you can't modify the address list in the EAC. Note : The RecipientContainer organizational unit recipient filter parameter is available to both precanned recipient filters and custom recipient filters. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.

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