Exchange Managed Store Session Limits (MoMT)
In environments with many shared mailboxes, the issue may also be caused by Exchange Managed Store session limits, not by Outlook or GeniusConnect.
All modern Exchange versions (2013, 2016, 2019) use the Managed Store architecture and enforce a limit on MAPI on the Middle Tier (MoMT) sessions.
The default value is:
- 32 sessions per user per mailbox database
When a service account opens many shared mailboxes, Exchange counts each mailbox as a MoMT session. After the limit is reached, Exchange starts rejecting additional sessions, which can result in:
- “The administrator has limited the number of items you can open simultaneously”
- Missing mailboxes in Outlook
- Sync failures after adding more mailboxes
Administrators can increase this limit (for example, from 32 to 200), and this typically resolves the issue immediately. This is an Exchange‑side configuration, not related to GeniusConnect.
How to increase Exchange Managed Store (MoMT) session limits
To raise the default MoMT session limit (32 sessions per user per mailbox database), increase the connection limits on the mailbox database or organization level:
Increase per‑database limit
powershell
Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity "<MailboxDatabaseName>" -MaximumAllowedConcurrentConnections 200
Increase organization‑wide MAPI connection limit
powershell
Set-OrganizationConfig -MaxMAPIConnections 200
Apply changes
powershell
Restart-Service MSExchangeIS
This raises the Managed Store session capacity and prevents session‑limit errors when many shared mailboxes are opened by the same account.