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0365 Outlook Connection while traveling. Only works on VPN

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Hello 

I am a home USA O365 subscription user.  I'm currently traveling to the UK and the Outlook App won't connect on my Mac.  For testing I connected to my Express VPN and surprise surprise it worked! 

What could be just stopping it working over the internet?

Thanks

Phil 

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Is this happening to a particular network over there or any connection in UK?

@adam deltinger To be fair I haven't been any to test any other locations yet.  This is open Guest Wi-Fi at my office.  What's interesting is I just ran some other tests such as syncing files to one drive and that worked fine.  Just Outlook.  

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Probably just the WiFi blocking some needed ports for outlook then! Try accessing the webmail instead

@adam deltinger It has started working!  Maybe it was just taking time for DNS to update?

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best response confirmed by PJB80 (Copper Contributor)
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Probably just the WiFi blocking some needed ports for outlook then! Try accessing the webmail instead

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