Cached Exchange Mode folder synchronization order

As a response to What is Outlook synchronizing now?, the following was asked;

In which order does Outlook synchronize the folder when it is configured in Cached Exchange Mode? Can I configure this order?

Exchange Mailbox buttonThere is indeed a specific order in which Outlook synchronizes the folders when you are connecting to an Exchange server with Cached Exchange Mode enabled.

While you can’t directly change the sync order, you can still influence it by selecting the folder that you want to have synched.

Once Outlook is started and the cache has been updated, the synchronization is taking place based on timers and not on folders. This provides a near instant update mechanism.

Status Bar - Cached Exchange Mode - All folders are up to date.
Folders are first synched in a specific order and then kept up to date by timers.

Folder Synching order

1Security settings
2Calendar
3Selected folder*
4Contacts
5Drafts
6Inbox
7Tasks
8User-created folders**
9Sent Items
10Deleted Items
11Junk mail
12Views
13Common Views
14Delegate content
15Public Folder Favorites
16Forms
*By default, the selected folder is the Inbox.
**Remaining folders are ordered by Outlook by using an intelligent learning algorithm that identifies which of these folders are used more frequently.

Note: When Outlook is placed in “Work Offline” mode and you initiate a manual send/receive (keyboard shortcut F9), the currently selected folder does not have an affect on the synching order. So if this is a non-default folder, it will be treated as a “User-created folder”.

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