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Today's Highlights:
- Two-Factor Support for Outlook.com and Gmail accounts
- Connected Accounts in Office 365: Ending
- Hide or Disable the Summary Card
- Track Editing in Outlook Email
Two-Factor Support for Outlook.com and Gmail accounts
Great news for Gmail and Outlook.com account holders who have 2-factor authentication enabled on their Gmail or Outlook.com accounts: 2-factor support is coming.
Support for 2-factor authentication with Outlook.com and Gmail accounts is in the current Office Insider builds - users with the insider fast build have it now and its rolling out to the slow track now. All Office 365 subscribers will get in a monthly update soon.
When 2-factor is enabled on your installation, Outlook will detect the accounts that have 2-factor enabled and will automatically update the account settings and ask for the second factor.
Connected Accounts in Office 365: Ending
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that they are removing support for connected accounts from Office 365.
This announcement applies only to the business side. Outlook.com users are NOT affected.
After September 15 2018, Office 365 Business and Enterprise users will not be able to add a connected account to Outlook on the web. Existing connected accounts will stop syncing after October 30 2018 and the option will be removed from Settings shortly thereafter. Although the connected accounts are being removed. any mail already synced will remain in the mailbox.
Will there be any new options for getting email from a different server once the connected accounts end? No, I’m not expecting a new features to replace it. Users will need to configure other mailboxes to forward to their Office 365 account.
If you use Outlook installed on Windows desktop, you can set up the second account using POP3 and deliver it to your Office 365 mailbox.
Connect email accounts in Outlook on the web (Office 365)
Hide or Disable the Summary Card
When you use Outlook.com or Office 365 email, a summary card containing reservation information picked up from the message message is displayed at the top of the message. While this this convenient, it takes up a lot of space on smaller devices.
In Outlook for Windows, you can minimize the summary card by clicking the inverted-V on the right edge of the summary card.
Unfortunately Outlook for Mac users are stuck with the summary card as it can't be collapsed.. Mac users can vote for the ability to hide it at UserVoice: Please remove the summary window on emails or give the option to close it so I can read my emails (example: flight information)
If you want to disable summary cards completely, log into Outlook on the web, click the gear icon and open Options. Look for the setting in Calendar Options, under Events from email.
Track Changes in Outlook Email
A user was annoyed because Outlook used colored text when he edited saved drafts:
When I paste text into an email in outlook 2016 from notepad so that it comes in without formatting, as soon as I close the email after saving it and then re-open it, the text is turquoise and has a visible indent.
This indicates Track Changes is turned on. When you hover over the colored lines, the popup will say “Unknown inserts” and repeat the text. If you right click on it, you’ll have options to Accept or Reject the change.
Press Ctrl + Shift + E to toggle track changes off (or on).
New & Updated Exchange KB Articles
Description of the security update for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016: August 14, 2018
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4340731
OWA Exchange 2010 created recurring meeting causes EWS clients to throw Meeting message could not be correlated exception
https://support.microsoft.com/help/2500102
Personal tags do not work correctly for an Inbox rule
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4456109
Update Rollup 23 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4340733
New & Updated Office 365 KB Articles
August 2018 updates for Microsoft Office
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4346823
Description of the security update for Office 2013: August 14, 2018
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4032239
Description of the security update for Office 2016: August 14, 2018
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4032233
New & Updated Outlook KB Articles
Attachment-save scenarios do not work as expected in Outlook 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4090818
Description of the security update for Outlook 2010: August 14, 2018
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4032222
Description of the security update for Outlook 2013: August 14, 2018
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4032240
Description of the security update for Outlook 2016: August 14, 2018
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4032235
How to scan Outlook by using the SaRA tool
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4098558
How to use the Out of Office or Automatic Reply in Outlook
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4026693
Office program errors when DisableThemes is configured in the __COMPAT_LAYER environment variable
https://support.microsoft.com/help/3028123
SSPI authentication prompt is inaccessible from the keyboard in Outlook in Windows 10
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4032226
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