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MicrosoftUpdate on Focused Inbox rollout for Outlook 2016 for Windows users
So I'm on version 1708 Semi Annual Targeted. I meet the Outlook version requirement, but it looks like you need to be on the Monthly channel to see the Focused Inbox.
At what point will Semi Annual or Semi Annual Targeted installs (which I imagine is a large percentage of Enterprise users) be enabled for the Focused inbox? And how does enabling Focused Inbox for the Office 365 tenant in Powershell affect us right now? Does it not matter unless we switched to Monthly Channel?
Thanks for any guidance you can provide.
- AllenFilushIt will come to Targeted in March of 2018, then Semi-Annual the next release after that. Those builds provide customer a slower update path from Monthly, which is why you haven't received the update yet.
Messing with FI won't effect the feature in Outlook 2016 until you are on Monthly channel or the feature comes to Semi-Annual. It will enable/disable the feature in the web, in Outlook for Mac, etc.Allen,
Just to make sure I understand correctly, even though build numbers matched for monthly and targeted channels in September, the functionality does not match? I was under the impression that the targeted channel caught up to feature sets in the monthly channel at that point and then they were locked for testing until Semi-Annual comes out.
If there is truly a difference, then the build numbers need to be different to reflect it.
- I'm also trying to understand why you need to be on Monthly channel to receive new features even if you're on the same build number of the Semi-Annual channel.
- Thanks for the info!
Lets be honest, Microsoft has done a horrible job with this focus based inbox roll out.
First off i hat the fact that i am now forced to use outlook clients an all devices, some users specially IOS ones like the native client which does not support the focused inbox. Then they go and discontinue clutter without providing notice for hosted clients last weekend. Little to no docs on it available on how to troubleshoot this. Whats sad is that it works great on MAC office version or IOS outlook client but they cant get it right on their own windows versions. Worked 2 hrs with support to get it fixed with no luck. So that tells you there is issues. One would expect that if you move from cluter to focused inbox you give users a transition period to make sure it works before you force it down their throat. But i guess this is to much to think of at the new Microsoft.
On that topic, are the focused or other messages tagged so one can write a rule to move it to a folder ?
