

To do this, hold CTRL when clicking on the Outlook icon in the Notification Area and then select Connection Status… The sync activity is shown on the “Local Mailbox” tab. To monitor Outlook’s synching processing more closely, you can open the Microsoft Exchange Connection Status dialog. The Status Bar reports the current synching status of your Exchange Mailbox. It also only displays “ This folder is up to date.” or “ Waiting to update this folder.” when it is building a connection or halting a current sync. When it is not, it usually is syncing additional mailbox information and data such as the folder hierarchy, Views or Quick Steps.

In general, Outlook will indeed display which folder it is currently syncing in the Status Bar. Is there any way to find out which folder Outlook is synchronizing right now? Sometimes it also indicates which folder it is working on but not always. After a while it changes to “This folder is up to date” and then to “All folders are up to date”.

I’m using an Exchange account and upon opening Outlook it says “Updating this folder”.
