Plus, a personalized inbox and calendar helps you stay on top of what’s important. It brings the best of Microsoft 365 together with easy access to emails, files, calendar events, and contacts across all your accounts so you can quickly get things done. Changing the location or using a mail identity that is located on an external hard disk or a network is not supported. Outlook helps you stay connected and organized at the office and at home. Like Microsoft Entourage for Mac 2008, Outlook 2016 for Mac and Outlook for Mac 2011 are intended to be purely locally cached mail clients. ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities Outlook for Mac 2011 caches your mail items in an identity in your home folder at the following location: ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles Outlook 2016 for Mac caches your mail items in a profile in your home folder at the following location: Additionally, using a mail identity or profile that is located on an external hard disk or on a network is not supported in either version of Outlook for Mac.
We do not recommend that you change the default location of your Profile folder for Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac, or your Identity folder for Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 to an external hard disk or to a network. Applies to: Outlook 2016 for Mac, Outlook for Mac for Office 365.Outlook for Mac is a locally cached email client
