Articles in Outlook.com Category

As of July 1 2024, Microsoft removed the connected accounts feature from accounts that were still using it.

Custom domains in Outlook.com was a short-lived experiment. As announced earlier this week (right after I encouraged a couple of clients to consider using it), Microsoft closed the Outlook.com Premium service to new subscribers.

If you haven’t yet had your fill of Microsoft betas, also known as Insider builds, and use the Outlook.com website, you can join the Outlook.com beta and try “new product innovations” that are considered for Outlook.com.

A number of Outlook.com users have a problem with Outlook.com contacts losing the company name. They create a contact with a company name in the company field and Outlook.com removes it. We now know the cause and the solution.

If your Outlook.com account is set up in Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016 and it has stopped syncing, you need to remove the account from Outlook and use auto account setup to reconnect the account as a Microsoft Exchange account.

Some users are discovering that Outlook sends winmail.dat files attached to messages when sending to contacts in their address book. Only Outlook on Windows desktop (all versions) is affected; messages sent from Outlook on the web or the Outlook app do not have the rogue winmail.dat file.

How to resize images in Outlook on the web.

After an Outlook.com account is moved to the new Outlook.com server Outlook 2010 users will need to remove the Outlook Connector account from Outlook and add the email account back using auto account setup, but a number of users cannot get the account setup in Outlook 2010 as an Exchange account.

How to set up an Outlook.com account in Outlook (desktop).

How to change the display name for Outlook.com email accounts moved to the new server.