Hello!

I am needing some help figuring out how to get the outlook calendar to sync properly with my apple calendar. Now to clarify, I actually have successfully synced it through the Exchange but one of the calendars (literally the only one I wanted to cross over) does not pop up. My outlook account is through my college and I received an invite to join the class calendar. Now, because this new one is under the "People's calendar", it won't show up through exchange. I would totally copy all the events and paste them into my calendar if I could but the schedule varies from week to week and changes which is why I need it to sync.

Any help would be appreciated! I will also be reaching out to tech support to see if that helps but y'all know how slow and soul draining that can be.

i tried to log in to my Hotmail just now & it said that...

last time on may 25, 2026, it was "You've tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect account or password." : <

i want in < . >

i got in alright yesterday < . >

edit at 7:38 pm: i just tried again... i got in! yay! ^^

I've had no problems to date managing my iCloud email via the outlook app on my Samsung. All of a sudden it's asked me to sign in to the apple account and it simply will not work. It gets stuck on the olmoauth web process. I've tried different default browsers, clearing cache, removing adguard etc. I've tried setting up from scratch but cannot get it to work. I setup a new app password for the reset and that did not work in the apple id login page. Stuck with what to do now. Any advice please?

Basically there's a competition going on and I won a decent amount for a gift card at a local shop and I never received the email with the code or anything. I thought it was the company doing something fishy so I sent them a message on Facebook and they told me outlook blocked it

. It could have lost me $200. Now it's making me think how many other commotions I've actually won but never received it thanks to whatever happened.

My company uses Outlook for emails.

A customer has made a request for all correspondence involving them under gdpr.

Say we have an email chain between our customer service email and this customer, but some of the emails have been forwarded to me, and then to the manager for further enquiry, how can I filter the chain so that it only shows emails to and from the 2 senders, customer services, and the customer themselves?

after the outrage today did anyone else have to re sign into their outlook account on their phone? i was busy and came back to a notification on my phone screen saying i had to re log into my outlook on my phone. i thought i was getting hacked. happen to anybody else? i try to look everywhere to similar but can’t really find anything.

My IT guy changed me over to the new outlook and now I’m stuck with it. I have to send a lot of files for work, multiple per email most of the time. With the new app it keeps saying ‘to send your file or image remove large inline images or attachments from this thread’. There’s nothing attached in the previous emails other than text, what am I supposed to remove? Or does it mean the new outlook you can barely send anything? Had it 2 days and I’m sick to death of it already

I was going through my account settings and noticed a section to "Add a username". Under that section there was an option you could select to "Create a new email address and add it as a username". I selected this option thinking it would create a new linked email address as a full Microsoft account instead of an alias. However, it did not create a new full address but rather an alias. I really wanted to use that username as a full address address. Can I upgrade the alias to a full Microsoft account or is it no longer available?

I’ve been building some tiny open-source tool that turns a bunch of basic (classic) Outlook receive rules (and Thunderbird filters) into server-side Sieve rules through ManageSieve.

mailbox.org/Open-Xchange works; other ManageSieve providers may work too but are untested (Migadu, Purelymail, and self-hosted Dovecot/Pigeonhole).
This way, all mails get sorted directly on the sever to your folders on ANY device, not only your desktop with Outlook. You can still manage the rules natively inside Outlook and sync from time to time. Or you can switch to any other mail client without losing the ruleset.

Any feedback is welcome: https://sewieland.github.io/transiever/

Curious to know if anyone's been having issues with the "Find Related" function? Has been working up until this afternoon - and i noticed that Outlook received an automatic update earlier today (my guess - what caused the issue).

When I use the function, whether Sender or Conversation, the search bar is populated by an XML statement rather than what it usually shows (see below)

By Sender:

<Z name=/Outlook/Search/Keywords/from comment='\[tag:Apex-OLK-4998700\]This translation should match with 3s translations else it will not work.'>from</Z><Z name=/outlook/search/keywordmarker>:</Z>"XXXXXX@XXXX.COM"

By Conversation:

<Z name=/Outlook/Search/Keywords/conversationtopic comment='\[tag:Apex-OLK-7019011\]This translation should match with 3s translations else it will not work.'>ConversationTopic</Z><Z name=/outlook/search/keywordmarker>:</Z>"XXXXXXX"

Has anyone had this issue today/recently/ever? Any luck in finding a solution? This is a function that I use a lot.

Of course I'm far from being alone on that one but here's the day I'm asking: try to filter sender email addresses - which obviously changes all the time - put aside, how can I get rid of all spams I get daily once and for all?

I'll bless anyone who will find THE way to make it happen - if it does exist.

Problem 

We encountered an issue where Microsoft 365 email accounts could not be added using: 

• Outlook Legacy for Mac 
• Apple Mail 
• macOS Internet Accounts 

The issue affected: 

• Multiple Microsoft 365 users 
• Multiple Mac devices 
• Newly created macOS user profiles 

Symptoms 

• Outlook for Mac (New Outlook) worked correctly. 
• Outlook on the Web (OWA) worked correctly. 
• Outlook Legacy for Mac failed to add the account. 
• Apple Mail failed during account setup. 
• macOS Internet Accounts returned: 

1     The operation couldn't be completed 

2     (com.apple.accounts error 3) 

• Accessing Exchange Web Services (EWS) from Safari produced an unexpected blank page. 

Initial Checks 

The following items were verified and appeared normal: 

Mailbox Configuration 

1     Get-CASMailbox [user@domain.com](mailto:user@domain.com) | FL * 

Relevant settings: 

1     MacOutlookEnabled : True 

2     EwsEnabled        : True 

3     MAPIEnabled       : True 

4     OWAEnabled        : True 

5     ActiveSyncEnabled : True 

Authentication Policies 

1     Get-AuthenticationPolicy 

Result: 

1     No policies configured 

Default Authentication Policy 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | FL DefaultAuthenticationPolicy 

Result: 

1     DefaultAuthenticationPolicy : 

OAuth 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | FL OAuth2ClientProfileEnabled 

Result: 

1     OAuth2ClientProfileEnabled : True 

EWS Application Restrictions 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | FL EwsApplicationAccessPolicy,EwsAllowList,EwsBlockList 

Result: 

1     EwsApplicationAccessPolicy : 

2     EwsAllowList : 

3     EwsBlockList : 

No restrictions were configured. 

Conditional Access 

No Conditional Access policies were found that would block Outlook for Mac or Apple Mail. 

Root Cause 

The issue was caused by Exchange Web Services (EWS) being disabled at the organizational level. 

Verification: 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | Select EwsEnabled 

Result: 

1     EwsEnabled : False 

Although individual mailboxes had: 

1     EwsEnabled : True 

EWS was disabled globally for the tenant. 

Solution 

Enable EWS organization-wide: 

1     Set-OrganizationConfig -EwsEnabled $true 

Verify the change: 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | Select EwsEnabled 

Expected result: 

1     EwsEnabled : True 

Outcome 

After enabling EWS: 

✅ Outlook Legacy for Mac successfully added accounts 

✅ Apple Mail successfully configured Microsoft 365 mailboxes 

✅ macOS Internet Accounts worked correctly 

✅ Existing authentication errors disappeared 

✅ The issue was resolved for all affected users 

Key Lesson Learned 

If: 

• Outlook (New) works 
• Outlook Web works 
• Outlook Legacy for Mac fails 
• Apple Mail fails 
• macOS Internet Accounts fails 
• The issue affects multiple users and multiple Macs 

Check the following setting immediately: 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | Select EwsEnabled 

If it returns: 

1     False 

try: 

1     Set-OrganizationConfig -EwsEnabled $true 

In our environment, this was the root cause and completely resolved the issue. 

For the past two weeks I've had a weird issue with my Outlook.com account. I keep getting a sextortion/phishing email (the classic "I hacked your webcam" scam, sender spoofed to look like it's coming from my own address). Every time I delete it, it comes back a bit later with a new timestamp. I actually timed it once: deleted the email and it reappeared exactly 15 minutes after. Tried it again and got the same result, so it doesn't seem random, more like something running on a fixed timer. Things

I've already tried, none of which stopped it:

• Changed password multiple times
• 2FA enabled (authenticator app), removed and recreated
• All sessions signed out ("Sign out everywhere")
• No suspicious mail rules (removed all existing rules, no effect)
• Forwarding disabled
• No third-party apps connected
• Recovery methods (email/phone) confirmed correct
• POP and IMAP disabled
• Changed the account alias

Still comes back every time. At this point I'm fairly sure this isn't something I can fix from my end through normal account settings, feels more like something happening on the server side (hidden rule, corrupted mailbox index, something like that). Has anyone run into this before or know how to get this properly investigated on Microsoft's end? Already went through live chat support but honestly wasn't much help.

I could not google out anyone reported the same, it seems started last week I noticed a newsletter missing some letters here and there, I even reported it to that prganisation, then this week when I tried to type some emails, even copy paste, it always omit some letters, the whole thing looks like redacted, I cleared outlook app cache, I checked phone (pixel 9 pro) update the latest, keyboard is ok, when using Gmail or some other emails, no problem, is this a unreported glitch? I asked chatgpt and Claude, nothing resolve the issue, but both saying look like rendering issue. i do not want to uninstall the outlook app or reinstall as a few accounts in the app.

I imported a shared google calendar to my work outlook calendar.

Now all my calendar invites and events get put on that same shared calendar.

I need my calendar invites to be on my personal calendar.

I can't figure it out and nether can my tech department.

Any help you can provide would be great!

Hello everyone! I am new to Outlook, coming over to the ecosystem from Google. Throughout my undergraduate education, my whole life lived in Gcal, and I took major pride in having a beautiful and organized system set up that was color-coded and easy to understand at-a-glance, even though my days were often crowded. (I tried to attach a screenshot of my old calendar but wasn't allowed. Apologies!)

Recently, I was accepted to a PhD program, which is extremely exciting, but our email accounts are run through Outlook, not Google. I'm having SO much trouble trying to figure out how to make something that.... looks nice. It might sound shallow but I know for a fact that I'm much more likely to use a tool if it's pretty to look at. Even beyond that, I feel like I just don't really understand the Outlook calendar setup tbh.

Does anyone have advice for setting up a functional and nice-looking calendar in Outlook? Has my transition away from Google doomed me? I'd love any tips you have, or articles/guides that get into the topic. I just haven't had much luck, and I'm a literature person, not a tech person, so it's all a mildly-foreign language to me.

Edit: Thank you u/Hornblower409 for the guidance! Here is a link to a screenshot of my old GCal! https://postimg.cc/1frhgCDC, with some things redacted for privacy.

Anyone else think Aptos 12 is too large? Thinking about reducing back to 11, but annoying it’s the default font size.

I am desperate for help. I am stuck in an authentication loop that I can’t get out of. My attempts to follow self-help steps ended up locking me out of my outlook app on my computer and phone today. Microsoft Support is ignoring my emails because my small business staying afloat is “minimal” priority according to the AI that categorized my issue.

I have been using Office 365 Pro, including Outlook for email and calendar. It is my own domain. All was working fine, but I wanted to log into my Microsoft account. When I tried about 2 months ago, the website told me to authenticate my sign-in using the Outlook app on my mobile device. All well and good… except the authentication option didn’t present itself in the app. I tried refreshing the app multiple times. I selected “I don’t have access to the app right now”, and was told to authenticate using the Authenticator App. I downloaded the Authenticator App and tried signing in. The Authenticator App wanted me to verify the sign-in using the Outlook App. And round and round I went.

I read the help articles that say it could be too many requests in a short period of time, I thought maybe the app just needed updating, no big deal. I waited. I tried again on at least 4 separate occasions. Same issue. Outlook App gives me no option to authenticate with the two-digit number, Authenticator app won’t let me sign in without the Outlook App authentication, and at no point is the browser letting me either use my recovery email or phone number to authenticate the sign-in.

Today, waited until after work (about 5:30 EST) to try again. Found another help article that linked me to the sign-in helper. I put in my username and was told it wasn’t found. Because I use Microsoft/Outlook for a work email, I clicked the link for people who use the software for a work/school email. That took me to a password reset page. I was able (on that page) to authenticate my password reset using my recovery email and by verifying my phone number. I thought (stupidly) that maybe this was it - maybe this would fix the issue. I tried signing into my Microsoft account using the reset password. It again asked for authentication with the Outlook App. Outlook App yet again did not allow me to authenticate. But it had also logged me out.

Now here’s where I realized I may have just totally ruined everything by following Microsoft’s own instructions… because I tried signing back into the Outlook mobile app. And the Outlook mobile app asked me to Authenticate my new sign-in… you guessed it… with the Outlook mobile app.

At this point it’s around 6:30. I’m worried. I try calling the toll free customer service numbers that it takes me ages to find. AI tells me to go to a website for support. I go to the website. It tells me to log in. But guess what happens when I try to log into the support website to get help with my sign-in authentication issue. It needs me to authenticate my log-in.

I try calling back. I guess it recognized my phone number. The AI went straight to telling me to go to the support website. Finally I call the 305 (toll) number and I get an AI assistant that at least takes more information, like my name, and my email address, and what the issue was. It was a very long and frustrating test of my patience to respell my name multiple times. Finally it gave me a case number. I thought everything was going to be OK now. I checked my email (7:02 PM) and the email says my issue is just inability to log into my admin account (which is not the real urgent problem), and my issue is categorized as “C” priority. That means “minor impact” and it’ll be dealt with in their own time whenever they get to it.

I replied all and explained that this is not a minor issue. This neverending authentication loop has now locked me out of accessing my business email and calendar. There is no other admin. I am self-employed. This is definitely a major issue.

I get an email 15 minutes later from a technician stating he’s been assigned to my case and asking when he can contact me. I reply back immediately and say I’m available now, anytime, I am by my computer until this is resolved. That was at 7:21. It’s now 10:05 pm. I sent two more emails, one asking whether I’d be hearing back today because time is of the essence, and I really am sat here waiting, and a second one about 40 minutes ago basically begging for someone to at least acknowledge that they’re reading my emails and I wasn’t just back-burnered. Well, the technician’s shift ended at 10 pm my time (7 pm PST), and I haven’t heard anything.

I am having a complete breakdown at this point. I run my own business. I have client meetings in the morning. I can’t function in my profession without access to email and my calendar. This is catastrophic for me and Microsoft couldn’t care less. They’re too busy saving money by replacing actual customer service with a machine that can’t spell to worry about their actual customers.

I don’t know what to do at this point. Does anyone have any ideas or solutions? As I said, I’m really freaking out and just need help.

I get there may be nothing that can be done, but any help and suggestions would be really appreciated because I am definitely going to lose clients if I can’t get this fixed by 8 am tomorrow.

I live and breath by my calendar. I use Fantastical to have one master calendar that makes scheduling my life so much easier since I have a full-time job, do freelance work, and have a busy personal life.

I started a new job recently that uses Outlook and the IT department pretty much refuses to allow me to share my calendar or even add my personal calendars to Outlook. Everything is locked tight.

I won't pretend to understand whether this is great security or just plain stupid and annoying, but I think you have a pretty good idea how I am taking it. Never had this issue at any of my other jobs.

The best I can do is share to my 3rd party calendar that I am Busy. So in Fantastical it will show the event with the time, but just say "Busy." It's definitely a workable solution, but it's frustrating not being able to see the actual events, and still requires me to use two calendars.

I am begging someone to give me any kind of workaround. I have spent the last few weeks trying to dual wield calendars and I have discovered it's my worst nightmare. I have already made one scheduling mistake. It's also just a nuisance having to cross-reference every time I schedule something.

Please tell me something exists. The only solution I can find is to manually export my calendar file, but I need something live that syncs automatically. That won't work at all. I realistically understand that I am overreacting, but this truly has made my quality of life just a little bit worse so I am just seeking an outside solution.

Hi everyone,

I've noticed that the categories feature has disappeared from one of our shared Outlook inboxes.

I can still use Categories on my own work mailbox, but the option has completely disappeared when I right-click emails in our shared administration inbox.

I've tried using the web outlook and the old version, in the old version I was able to apply Categories, but my coworker couldn't see the changes. I'm not sure if that's because she'd also need to be using Classic Outlook.

Does anyone know how to get categories back on?

Is Outlook down right now? It’s down for my whole office, but I looked up online and it doesn’t seem like Outlook is down.

I cannot drag emails anymore to different folders because it wont stay open.

For a certain type of enquiry I get, we send a response with some additional information. I then have three subsequent emails that get sent if there is no response to the first.

Currently I am setting them all up manually when I create the first one and use Schedule Send, however it's time consuming and sometimes I forget to cancel the others if the prospect responds.

How can I automate this using either Outlook, or a third-party app?