So today I decided that it was time to finally give both Outlook and Exchange a rest. I grouped my email messages in Outlook by date, held the shift key and pressed delete. I could hear my processor and drive crunching as Outlook was trying to delete 465,000-plus messages from as far back as 2005. Now let me tell you this, there have been many times where I needed to use the built-in (and brutally slow) search feature within Outlook to find specific emails.  I am sure you have done this yourself on many occasions.

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