Issue with viewing mode for E5 licensed users
I'm a sysadmin for a Health care provider in Sweden and we have an issue with users with an E5 license loading into Office apps in view-mode. As far as I know we are a coupe of organisations providing health care that have this same issue. Background: We have a mix of F3 and E5 licenses and sometimes the F3 licensed users need to view documents that contains info that isn't allowed to be saved in the cloud. To minimize the popups that show up when a user starts word unlicensed we have a GPO (viewer mode) that says that it should open i view-mode. Per my understanding this GPO is device based and not user based. However, this also affects the users of E5 license who regularly change workstations, easily 5-10 devices in a day. Since they should be able to view and edit documents in office apps it causes frustration and confusion when they load into view-mode and have to log out and then in again (or update license) and restart the program. Our computers devices are Microsoft Entra hybrid joined and shared computer licensing is enabled. Are there any solutions or viable workarounds for this issue? It's not complicated for users to handle but frustrating and causes a lot of tickets to the support team. Unsure if I'll be able to participate due to the time zone difference but will appreciate any and all help. /Per Ekholm
Two Linked Outlook Issues Causing Accidental Emails to Wrong Clients Feature Request + Bug Report
Hi Outlook Community, I'm posting this after a real incident at work where I accidentally sent a confidential email to the wrong client. After reflecting on what went wrong, I've identified two separate but related Outlook issues that compounded the mistake and I want to raise both here so they reach the right people. Bug: Autocomplete Recipient Changes After You Press Enter This one is subtle but dangerous. When you start typing a name in the To/CC/BCC field, Outlook shows an initial autocomplete suggestion. If you press Enter before the search fully resolves, the dropdown refreshes mid-selection and the contact that actually gets added is *different* from the one that was highlighted when you hit Enter. You don't get any warning. You believe you've selected the right person. You haven't. I've submitted this via the Feedback Portal here: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/9a32197e-5424-f111-9730-0022485314bc Suggested fix: Freeze the highlighted contact reference at the moment Enter/Tab is pressed, independent of any ongoing background search refresh. --- Feature Request: Cross-Domain Recipient Warning (like the missing-attachment check) Outlook already warns you before sending if it detects you may have forgotten an attachment. I'd love to see a similar pre-send check for this scenario: You are about to send an email to recipients across 3 different organisations. Did you mean to do this? In consulting, legal, finance, and any client-facing role, it's very easy to accidentally include someone from Client B on an email meant only for Client A especially when contacts share similar names. A configurable domain-count threshold (default: 2 external domains) with a soft confirmation prompt would catch this class of mistake before it becomes a compliance incident. Key asks: - Configurable threshold (user-level) - Domain whitelist support (e.g., always allow your own org + a known partner) - Covers To, CC, and BCC combined - Non-blocking same UX pattern as the attachment warning I've submitted this as a feature request here: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/9a32197e-5424-f111-9730-0022485314bc --- Has anyone else run into either of these? Would love to know if the autocomplete bug is reproducible for others that would help push it up the priority queue. Thanks for reading. Sudharm P
Hotmail to Outlook Migration Broke My Account
A year or two ago, I updated my Microsoft account to try and migrate from hotmail.com to @outlook.com. Since then, my Microsoft account is broken. I log in with my @outlook.com email, but account.microsoft.com displays my hotmail.com email everywhere. Mobile apps will not stay logged in properly and kick me out after a day. On my account info page my @outlook.com email isn't even listed and hotmail.com is listed as primary, but only logging in with @outlook works. I'm pretty sure when I originally tried to migrate my account some exception wasn't handled properly part way through the process and my account is in some sort of database limbo. Is there anyone at Microsoft here that can help with this? Also, sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, but a call with Microsoft support pointed me here and there doesn't seem to be a "Microsoft Account Support" hub or space on this platform. If anyone knows of a better location feel free to suggest that as well. Thanks!
Disable incessant nagware popups
I don't know about everyone else, but I am sick and tired of the nagware pop ups in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc. Every single product harasses me with pop ups trying to tell me "hey, did you know this feature was here?", "you can do this if you click that", "let me hold your hand through using products you've used for decades even though you don't want daddy Microslop to do that". This is a prime example. I keep getting the same ones again and again and again and everything I've read indicates they should only appear once. But they don't. They keep coming back like a psychotic stalker ex who wants alimony even though you were never married. How do I get this nagware to stop?!
Office 365 no internet error
Outlook just stopped working yesterday. I have been using 356 for a couple of years now. One drive and Outlook both say I don't have internet access. Obviously I do. I can use one drive and outlook via a web browser, but not the desktop apps. I have tried most of the suggested fixes and nothing has worked. Anyone else having issues?Outlook "Classic" issues
Without any changes being made to my system, I am suddenly getting the following error message when trying to send/receive mail. Task 'email address removed for privacy reasons: Folder:Inbox Check for new mail.' reported error (0x800CCC0E) : 'Outlook cannot download folder Inbox from the IMAP email server for account email address removed for privacy reasons. Error: Cannot connect to the server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).' I have followed all of the suggested solutions that I could find including editing the registry but nothing is working. Hope someone can help as thjis is a big problem for me.OAB download fails after hybrid mailbox move.
Hi folks, I'm posting this query here as I doubt anyone in the Outlook forums would have the necessary Exchange hybrid knowledge. I run a classic hybrid Exchange environment where Exchange Server 2019 CU15 is the on-premise platform. Authentication is provided by on-premise AD FS, with the accounts being synchronised from on-premise via AAD Connect. I've just moved my on-premise mailbox to Exchange Online via New-MoveRequest and for the most part, everything is fine. One thing that possibly isn't fine - going off the Bits-Client event log is the regular offline address book downloads, where I'm seeing regular failures in the event log and through double-checking with bitsadmin.exe. The initial address book synchronisation worked as the view in Outlook is fully populated, however, I expect that future changes likely won't come through. bitsadmin output Event log output (There's numerous events to choose from - this is the one I'm most curious about.) The BITS service provided job credentials in response to the UNIDENTIFIED authentication challenge from the outlook.office365.com server for the Microsoft Outlook Offline Address Book <guid> transfer job that is associated with the following URL: /OAB/<guid>/oab.xml. The credentials for the <sid> user were rejected. When the mailbox was on-premise, the OAB came from the Exchange Server - no surprise there, where post migration it can be seen from the bitsadmin output it now comes from outlook.office365.com. Perhaps that's also to be expected - I don't know, but it makes sense given the move. What alerted me to there potentially being an issue is the systray icon frequently gets stuck on the "synchronising" icon, and running a manual full OAB sync from within Outlook fails to complete. After an extended "hang" period, the sync window eventually times out with the error shown above (the protracted UI behaviour would appear to be due to the large number of retries). Dropping the BITS job URL into Edge simply returns a HTTP 503, which doesn't necessarily strike me as a problem. After all, I'm unable to provide a BEARER token using this method. I haven't yet tried via PowerShell as it only occurred to me now but perhaps I'll do so after posting this. Searching on this error and scenario has turned up nothing useful. I have also checked and compared event log entries from an Azure AD-native account, where it's a mixed bag of successful OAB BITS downloads and unsuccessful ones that feature the same symptoms as above, which offers up the possibility this might be a transient service-side error (though I'm not leaning heavily towards this). Has anyone else encountered this issue and resolved it? Is it even an issue to begin with, or is this expected behaviour? I'm unsure what to make of the symptoms. Cheers, Lain
