Outlook New Experience update - network save location bug

Anonymous
2022-07-21T05:58:48+00:00

My default save location when saving documents from Word/Excel/Outlook is on network folder via folder redirection for Documents and Desktop. When i switch to new experience interface and try to save email attachment from Outlook it's trying to open the shared folder via port 80 instead SMB file share which cause an pop up display Connecting: Trying to connect to: \fileserver\share...

Microsoft® Outlook® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2206 Build 16.0.15330.20260) 64-bit

If I manually change the default save location to point on some local folder and then navigate to the file share via "save as" dialog it browse the shared folders normally and open the network shares normally. Also if i disable the new experience switch and return to the old interface of outlook it works ok. This problem is observed only in the New experience interface for all Office products (word/excel/outlook) when the default save location is pointing to the network share.

For Word and Excel there's option for default save location

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-07-27T14:23:07+00:00

    This is a bug.

    Even if the default location is on local disk, if you save an attachment file to a network share, and save another attachment it goes to the previous used location and it appears the "Trying to connect to:\network location".

    Several computers on diferent networks with same issue after updating to 16.0.15330.20266.

    It seems that for now the only option is to revert to previous release of office.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-07-21T06:24:00+00:00

    The user files are stored via folder redirection to the network share and the windows sync center take care of sync documents/desktop to that personal share folders. It works like that more than 15 years and only after the last update of Microsoft Office it start to try to connect to that shares via HTTP like it's SharePoint instead or DAV instead of using the SMB protocol. So it's defined some kind of bug in the new version of Microsoft Office (new experience).

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-07-21T06:07:13+00:00

    Assuming Office/OL desktop MS does nor support the use of an outlook connected data file on a Lan/Network/Cloud location, as it can lead to data corruption (it has never been supported)

    Any connected data file should be on the local PC, the default location being \MyDocuments\Outlook Files\

    And if 365 the default save location for Word etc docs being OneDrive

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