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    Outlook can't remember outlook.com, Exchange password.

    I have been having outlook/exchange asking for password when outlook starts. I can enter password and it asks again a few minutes later. or it may be a day between asking. This has been going on for several weeks. This means that connection with Exchange calendar is completely unreliable. I...
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    'search people' now asks me to 'press enter'

    OL16, local install, part of Office16. Search People box, installed in OL task bar, is now asking me to "press enter' to initiate search. Until about 3 weeks ago (windows update?) it searched while typing. I have tried rebuilding the index (yes, outlook is checked as an index location), and...
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    manual rule sends mail to wrong folder

    OL16, installed on local computer. I have a Manual rule, to move an email to 'hold' folder in my main imap account. It used to work ok. a few weeks ago it apparently stopped working as directed. it sends all mail to outlook.com 'hold' folder. I have checked the rule and it points to...
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    Links in email getting error message about group policy

    I updated win10 yesterday Today I get this message whenever clicking on a link in email : I haven't changed any settings. the default browser, http, and https defaults all point to browser (vivaldi). web search hasn't provided any current solutions. anyone have an idea of what broke?
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    force outlook to default to MY calendar

    I have my own calendar, "calendar-outlook email account", synced through exchange, which i have used for years. whenever outlook doesn't close properly, eg, it freezes and I have to close program on it, the next it opens it shows the "calendar-outlook" which has little of interest in it, maybe...
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    Imap account not auto syncing inbox at startup

    I open Ol16 every morning. the imap account doesn't automatically sync it's inbox. I have to click some other folder (trash, sent, whatever) then back to inbox before it will sync. the rest of day it mostly syncs automatically, but sometimes i have to go through the routine. I don't see...
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    Ol16 desktopT suddenly can't connect with Exchange

    OL16, desktop version. win10 2019. Turned on desktop computer today, opened Outlook. greeted with a request about connecting to internet. Never saw that before. Then I am getting requests for microsoft password, which eventually I figured out was for outlook.com and its syncing calendar...
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    Outlook replies not using "delivered to" address in From

    OL16 IMAP I have a main 3rd party account. This account also has 2 aliases. I have the main account and the two aliases set up as accounts in Outlook, with all 3 using the same incoming and outgoing server info. Of course, both aliases show all the same mail as the main account. I did this...
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    new labeled phone field

    OL16: I have some contacts that have more than one cell phone number. I also have an iphone. I sync OL to iphone using Companionlink (I don't think that this is instrumental to the problem). I can add a note to the cell phone number (eg " 111-111-1234 Sarah cell ") in Outlook to id the number...
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    Outlook 2019 having issues with 'people search' and not making suggestions in email To: etc

    Locally Installed version of Outlook in Office 2019, (not 365). From beginning, 3 days ago, there have been problems with finding contacts. Sometimes the entire name has to be typed. This happens in 'search people' . and not finding names when typing into email To: fields. I can use drop...
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    Replies being sent from wrong account

    Outook 2016. Win10 I have a default pop account at default@fastmail.fm, also another pop account through the same fastmail.fm account as firstalias@fastmail.fm (I guess this called an alias?) . all mail is sent and received through the default@fastmail.fm account login. In the past if I...
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    remove or turn off outlook.com contact folder from outlook 2016

    Outlook 2016, installed locally. Several times i have found the Outlook.com contact folder populated by all (or sometimes most, no idea how the choice is made) of the contacts held in my local contacts folder. This means that all these contacts are now uploaded to outlook.com site. I have no...
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    open Outlook with multiple windows.

    I believe that I asked about this some time ago. ie: if I have Outlook mail and calendar open in separate windows, how do I get them both to open the next time I start Outlook? If I simply close both windows separately only the main Outlook window will open next time. I was advised that the...
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    Helping OL remember which calendars were selected

    Since this problem continues in Outlook 2016 (Getting Outlook to remember what calendars were selected when you last used Outlook and to reselect them at start-up). Is there some registry modification that will accomplish this? I saw the thread about not using 'start in Calendar folder' or...
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    added new calendar, now not syncing to windows phone

    Outlook 2016 vl version. Windows 10 mobile phone. after reading about the wrong date for election day, I deleted the existing HOL in Outlook, added the new one. I also added a new calendar for Jewish Holidays, which I downloaded from a website. It is not the Jewish Holiday calendar offered by...
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    Outlook.com changing appointments

    If I enter a new appointment on my desktop, or on phone (windows mobile 10), outlook.com seems to corrupt them when they pass through outlook.com for syncing. I never enter anything directly in outlook.com. Outlook 2016 desktop is set up to default to "no reminders", and the phone isn't good...
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    "search people" not finding all contacts

    Ol16. volume license version. on Win7. This is the opposite of the old, ongoing, problem of Outlook listing multiple versions of the same contact. In this case it is not finding all contacts. eg: search on Cathy. returns one contact, even though the contact list shows 3 Cathy's. Search on...
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    Birthday reminders now ending after 10 years??

    Today I discovered that all (?) my birthday reminders are set to end after 10 occurrences. What is Microsoft's assumption? No one lives more than 10 years? After 10 years users will happily find different software to use for managing contacts? I seem to remember that all recurrences were set...
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    OL16 C2R attachment preview fails

    gives message:"This file cannot be previewed because no previewer is installed for it." , Double clicking on the file opens Word which also gives an error message about opening the file. Saving the attachment and then trying to open it with Word also fails. The 3rd party file manager has no...
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    windows mobile 10 calendar not syncing

    I just "upgraded" the lumia 925 from 8.1 to 10. the calendar won't sync to outlook.com calendar (which syncs to desktop outlook calendar). there was no problem when using 8.1. account seems to be in the phone. all days in calendar are blank. A web search has revealed nothing about this...
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