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Brass Contributor

Apr 19, 2017

Solved

Focused inbox shows in OWA missing in Outlook 2016

Ok - I tried to find a similar topic but I failed. If this is a duplicate feel free to call me out. Yesterday (finally) focused inbox showed up in my tenant. I have it disabled at the organiza...

AllenFilush
Apr 20, 2017
Hey Joshua - please check out our official blog on Focused Inbox: https://blogs.office.com/2016/07/26/outlook-helps-you-focus-on-what-matters-to-you/

This blog talks about IT controls: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2016/10/14/managing-focused-inbox-in-office-365-and-outlook/

Thanks for your patience. More updates coming soon!

William Hardwick

Iron Contributor

Nov 19, 2017

So I am not an engineer so forgive me for not reading all the forums on this issue. In addition I have also have called Microsoft Support on this issue, which they did not know how to resolve or give an answer about.

Can anybody tell me when I am going to get focused in my Outlook 2016 Desktop? It is now November?

Diane_Poremsky_MVP

MVP

Nov 19, 2017

In file, office account, what build /version do you have? 1711 removes the modern auth requirement and focused will work for all office 365 and outlook.com users. 1711 is available to office insiders and will be released to general availability “soon”.

Andrew Gitzen
Brass Contributor
Dec 08, 2017
My tenant is not setup for Modern authentication yet, 2016 Pro Plus just updated to the December build (Monthly Channel 1711 8730.2122) and Focus inbox is now on for my test users. Time to get Outlook trained to move everything to Other and keep my inbox clean! :)
- mattias-skog
  Iron Contributor
  Dec 11, 2017
  I got the newest version of Outlook 2016 but I still can't use the Focused Inbox feature. The Focused Inbox group is there in the View tab but the Show Focused Inbox button itself is missing... Any ideas on how to solve this?
  - Andrew Gitzen
    Brass Contributor
    Dec 11, 2017
    PowerShell verify Focused is on for your mailbox.
    
    Get-FocusedInbox -Identity yoursmtpaddress
    
    Should come back with FocusedInboxOn : True
    
    This can be set tenant wide or per mailbox to test our the feature, and let the email admins get the correct transport rules in place.