Outlook.com Will Now Locate Your Data Dynamically
- Paul Thurrott
- Oct 27, 2017
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While we often get hung up on how the products and services look, how they work is arguably of even greater importance. And on that note, Microsoft is sharing some details today about how it will make your Outlook.com experience even better.
“A key part of keeping performance snappy is to store your data in a region that optimizes performance, which is typically based on the proximity of datacenters to where you are located,” the Outlook team writes. “Today, we’re excited to share ways we’ve updated Outlook.com to be more intelligent about where your mailbox data is stored.”
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According to the team, Outlook.com will automatically configure your account to use the datacenters that offer the best performance. Historically, this meant placing your data in a datacenter in your own region. But as Microsoft’s datacenter capacity has expanded over the years, it has found that it can do a better job by moving your data to a new location when warranted.
This happens at the time of account creation, and it happens when you move. So instead of manually creating your account in the physically nearest datacenter, Outlook.com will now determine its location automatically, based on performance. And if you move, Outlook.com will automatically move that data to the best datacenter for you, over time.
“For example, if you set up an Outlook.com account in Spain and later relocate your residence to the U.S., your account will be migrated to U.S. datacenters to optimize your access,” the Outlook team notes. “Note that we will not continuously move data back and forth between regions every time you travel abroad. The intent here is to improve performance by keeping your data in proximity to where you are primarily located.”
So that’s interesting. But seriously, when are you going to update Calendar and People in the new Outlook.com? 🙂
Conversation 11 comments
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Stooks
<p>Wake me when Outlook dot com can sync my contact photos and ring tones to my phone and allows me to de-link the Skype junk.</p>
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dontbe evil
<p>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">But seriously, when are you going to update Calendar and People in the new Outlook.com"</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">fun fact, let's compare how many times google updated gmail, contacts and calendar in 5 years to outlook.com</span></p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><a href="#211167"><em>In reply to dontbe_evil:</em></a></blockquote><p>Fun fact…..Google's contacts work. Just Google "outlook dot com sync contact photos".</p><p><br></p><p>I moved back to Outlook dot com to give it another try. It simply won't sync my contact photos or any individual ring tones for calls or texts. Google will. I tried this on both a iPhone and Android phone.</p><p><br></p><p>Also any contact that has Skype as well, it then injects this long "live:3489t1209u675n452" or whatever number in the contacts and you CANT get rid of it. Not to mention you get multiple contact lists when you setup a phone Outlook, Skype, Windows Live, Facebook (don't even have an account). I am guessing since they are linked and you CANT get rid of them they are in there. With Google you get….."Contacts" as in just the one, what you would expect.</p><p><br></p><p>Anyhow I complained and there is some big thread on MS support but their stupid canned answers about how setup a phone with their email was posted, probably by some bot.</p>
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Luis_Sohal
<p>Call on &&**866).(877).(9859)__++</p><p>#Outlook Support Number</p><p>#Micrsosoft Support Number</p><p>#Outlook Password </p><p>#OutlookSupport </p><p>#HotmailPasswordRecovery</p><p>#OutlookandMicrosoft Support Phone Number</p><p>Call ***866).(877).(9859>>></p><p>outlooksupport.net</p><p><br></p>