Tag: Outlook 2016
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Fixed: Cannot create a deal in Outlook Customer Manager
Outlook Customer Manger Outlook Customer Manager is a “free” CRM that is bundled with Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium. It allows members of the organisation to share Contacts, Companies and Deals which are what other CRM such as ACT! or GoldMine (showing my age) would call Prospects, Accounts and Opportunities. If it works it might…
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IMAP is dead – how to use it with Outlook.com
I have just spent 4 hours trying to connect a user’s mobile phone to Outlook.com using IMAP. The first thing I should say is that this is the wrong solution. The only sensible client tool for Office 365 including Outlook.com is Outlook mobile. Outlook 2016 desktop does work but has issues with aliases. However this…
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Personal domains are dead, how to migrate to Outlook.com
For 20 years I have owned the domain bayley.me.uk and run my email off it for myself and my family. Contacts and Calendaring have always been separate applications. However now with smartphones we all want simple and integrated email, calendaring and contacts. The natural choice for me is Outlook.com, this starts from free but I…
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Server settings for outlook.com
When setting up the Outlook 2016 desktop client to connect to an outlook.com hosted email address you should use ActiveSync and the correct server setting is m.hotmail.com. This should work. When you review the settings you will find that the server has automagically changed to something like blu999-m.hotmail.com. This also works, I assume that this…
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Registry hack to enable Outlook 2016 to connect to Office 365
Issue: Outlook 2016 (which I am testing) cannot connect to Office 365 Exchange. It is no longer possible to manually enter Exchange Server details. A valid Autodiscovery record is required. Use this site to find out which autodiscovery mechanism you are using. https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/ Verifies that we do have a valid autodiscovery record and that we…
Dr James Bayley 