My office has some unique power issues now and then. particularly since those interfaces have been optimized to run on thin internet links. It could be that crippling Outlook with IMAP might be a worse solution than using the native Gmail/Gcalendar web interfaces. Here's another perspective: If you're running IMAP in outlook, you're not really getting the most out of the mail and calendar integration. I think your best bet is to bypass the installer check like you're doing and configure to run the Outlook Plug in. This is why deleting and re-creating gives you a temporary respite.
Since it can't use the special sauce included in MAPI, it's basically doing lots of little file transfers. As time goes by there's is more overhead as Outlook manages the deltas between client list and server list. The IMAP client in Outlook is acting like a desktop explorer for your Mail file, the first big transfer is the list of folders and then the subject lines of all the messages. MAPI is the way to go (that's why the Google Apps for Outlook plugin works better)
Its weird as i had reprofiled once before since upgrade from 2010 and it didn't make a change. So i am happier but still annoyed as its a weird one. Its not fixed it but after a 2nd time of doing a reprofile, it seems to do an initial send and receive thats a large one, then the next ones are much much smaller. Maybe the big guys should put down their gloves for a few minutes and solve some interface issues for the rest of us, their paying customers. Crazy, but it worked.Īre we the only shop trying to run Outlook with Google Apps? I think not.
It is not supported for the click-to-run editions, which is all we have, so I first downloaded and installed Office 2013 Enterprise (the not-click-to-run version, 30-day trial mode), installed GA Sync for Outlook, got it configured to the account and working, then installed Office 2013 Home and Business, then uninstalled Office 2013 Enterprise. To get around this problem, for the rest of our Outlook 2013 installations we are using Google Apps sync for Outlook. We have a few Outlook 2013 installations, most are Outlook 2010. Tried all the fixes published on the internet, and they weren't long lasting.
We're seeing IMAP bandwidth in the magnitude of several GB/day for 1 computer, 1 IMAP account - more than 10X the bandwidth of all of our other IMAP connections combined, including the one that is used to archive all of the email of our company (50 users). Shame, shame, MS! I can't believe they would release such a bandwidth hog in the day-and-age of metered cellular internet connections. We're also having big problems with this.