Flawed password management model for Microsoft’s new Outlook app

Microsoft’s new Outlook for iOS and Android isn’t like other ActiveSync clients. In fact, it isn’t really an ActiveSync client at all. The actual ActiveSync client is a Microsoft-owned server that stores your username and password in order to get data from the Exchange server and then push it to the Outlook app. Why they didn’t just make a standard ActiveSync app and store the […]

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Force Outlook to use cached or online mode

You can force Outlook on a single computer to use cached or online mode without creating a group policy by setting this registry value: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\xx.0\Outlook\Cached Mode Where xx.0 is 14.0 for Outlook 2010 and 15.0 for Outlook 2013. Set this value to 1 to force cached mode or 0 to force online mode.

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