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Run rule now is grayed out
My rules in Outlook are grayed out again. The part of manual execution. And this status has been remained for at least 3 days. I encountered this circumstance before like few months ago and here we g...
Microsoft engineers have confirmed a bug with “Run Rules Now” in New Outlook.
Updated as of November 18, 2025: For now, rules that use these actions won’t run (see the blog post Why “Run Rules Now” is Greyed Out in New Outlook TRACCreations4E for details and timelines):
- Forward To
- Forward As an Attachment To
- Redirect To
- Send Text Message To
- Display Desktop Alert
- Play a Sound
Also, the following actions were temporarily disabled during their investigation. Resolved on Friday, September 26.- Categorize
- Move To
- Copy To
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#traccreations4e-r25 updated reponse 11/18/2025
original response 9/24/2025
How is this marked as resolved? It's October 7th and I still can't run rules now. Forget the fact that ALL of my rules disappeared, setting them up is pointless if I can't run them.