07 January 2015

Mail tips cannot be displayed

When typing a mail message to a colleague i received the following error:


Before you start looking at your Exchange configuration and mess up everything that's working, run this: Outlook.exe /cleanmailtipcache


You don't see anything happening, but underwater your mail tips cache is being cleared.

After starting Outlook again and composing a new mail message you could get your mail tips back.


If it still doesn't work for you, check out the following:


  1. Are your autodiscover url's correctly configured and working
Here is a quick way to test the autodiscover configuration:

Go to your computer start bar, right side where Date and time is showing, you will find the Outlook icon, hold Ctrl + right click on the outlook icon and click “Test Email Auto Configuration…”

After this choose the settings as shown below:


Run the test.
The output of a working Autodiscover is displayed below, compare with your results.


  1. The type of mail tip that'not working for you.
  2. Check the organisation config in Exchange
  3.  Check the group metrics based mail tips






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