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MicrosoftUpdate on Focused Inbox rollout for Outlook 2016 for Windows users
Current Channel First Release with Focued Inbox enabled in OWA with Modern Auth. Outlook 16.0.7927.1020 tells me I'm all caught up on updates though. No Focused Inbox.
- AllenFilushJohn Wayne - I don't have a date to share, but as soon as we do it will be up on the Office 365 Roadmap. And your point is understood about PowerShell skills. Our admin center has been improving day by day, but there is certainly more to do. Feedback taken.
Jaymz - Yep, that is right. Just need another update to your client, which should be rolling out as we speak. Just note that, as explained above, you also need Modern Auth.Just in case anyone else goes through this. Just spent a couple of hours with the Outlook team on a service request for this. Here is what we did...
Disabled Cached Exchange Mode
Removed Profile, Added New Profile, Disabled Cached Exchanged Mode
Verified Modern Auth
Verifed OWA has Focused Inbox
Ran OffCat
Changed all my autodiscover settings for some reason
Reinstalled Office 2016 from CTR
Attempted to enable Multi-Factor Authentication (I had to fight against this one... almost locked me out)
A bunch of reinstalls again..
Still no focused inbox. They are escalating I guess.
This morning I opened my Outlook, no focused inbox. Then for fun, I closed it and opened again.. aha, I got the "Meet Focused Inbox" bubble.
and I see it in my Inbox.
https://www.screencast.com/t/goDbLfhu
But as you can see, nothing under the view tab.
Closed and reopened Outlook, and it's there.
https://www.screencast.com/t/o3YOxhiZO3
Build: 8201.2025 CTR First Release for Current Channel, Office Insider Slow - That's where Focused Inbox apparently appears.
What am I missing here? Still no focused inbox on Outlook 2016 First Release Current Channel. Version 1703 Build 7967.2161 CTR.
https://www.screencast.com/t/NsBqmoRgp
Modern Auth enabled for Exchange Online.
Can you shed any light on why the perpetual version of office 2016 will not be getting Focused Inbox?
It's a very frustrating position for Microsoft to take and not at least explain why.
I'm a consultant with a variety of clients and some have a strong BYOD aspect. I'm having trouble defending the idea to those BYOD clients that 'despite the fact that all their users have outlook 2016, the ones with perpetual licenses will not get Focused Inbox'. Especially since it's working so well on Outlook for iOS and Android.
- AllenFilush
Hey Geoffrey,
Sorry for any issues we are causing you. I'm happy to explain it, and glad you find it to be working well on other platforms.
Customers have two options when they choose to buy Office. They can buy:
- Office 2016 perpetual - this is the traditional, one-time upfront payment for a point in time version of Office. You can use the product forever. It never gets new feature updates. This is the same as Office 2007, 2010, 2013, etc. You buy that version. If you want new features, you buy the next version.
- Office 365 subscription - you pay a monthly subscription and pay for the right to get an always up to date version of Office. You get new features every month.
Every customers has that choice when they choose to buy office. Do I want to pay for the version that updates? Or do I want to buy the version that doesn't?
A question for you - can you share more about why the users in the company are on different types of Office? Am I correct in I'm assuming that, despite our marketing/websites, your response is that they didn't read to understand the difference between the two?
