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Also known as OWA, or Outlook on the web, or Outlook Web App, allows access to emails based on a Microsoft Exchange Server.

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Possible to display date and time of emails in Outlook 365 web app inbox and sent-items and custom folders for items older than "this week"?

For emails older than "this week", is it possible to display the time as well as the date on all Outlook web app email lists: InBox, Sent, and custom folders? Outlook displays time-only (09:...
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Are Outlook (MS Office) and OWA email filter rules different?

Both Outlook (the native Application) as OWA (outlook web access) are email clients used for MS Exchange Email server. Both support filtering emails. I wonder if there is any difference, and if so ...
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OWA marks messages as unread on deletion

I'm using OWA in FF 65, with Exchange 2016(?) as a backend. Whenever I delete a message, it shows up in the deleted folder as a new message. This screws up my notifier for unread messages, making it ...
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OWA printing nearly blank e-mails from Firefox

Trying to deduce an issue in my office department: when printing e-mails from Outlook Web Access (Office365) using Firefox, some e-mails are coming out nearly blank (the headers--date/url/page numbers ...
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How to generate a specific url to an email in ms exchange server using message id?

I am writing an email client application for ms-exchange. I have the full email data (content and headers including message id) fetched from exchange server (I used IMAP for fetching the messages). ...
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Shortcut to add a zoom meeting in Outlook web (OWA) calendar

I use outlook.com (also called OWA) for email and calendar. The end goal is via shortcuts, click on the option to add a zoom meeting Given that I've not found any shortcut (which would have been the ...
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Separate taskbar shortcuts for Outlook Web Mail and Calendar

Using Chrome or Edge you can install Outlook (from Office 365) as a PWA / taskbar icon. However, it will always default to the Mail section of the Outlook PWA. Is there a way to add a second icon to ...
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Prevent inline suggestions in email as sender

Outlook is able to make suggestions for meetings based on what is written in the text. Because this has caused problems in the past (and I don't want this feature in general), I wish to disable it as ...
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How to search for item type in Outlook Web App?

I am looking to limit my search results to emails — or at least exclude Calendar items (invites & replies) — from my Outlook Web App search results. The desktop app has [Message Class]:IPM.Note as ...
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How do you disable an email forwarder in Outlook when it is "Unable to load these settings"?

We have a shared Office365 mailbox that I recently set to forward to a (free) external help-desk system, by going to, Settings Cog > View all outlook settings > Forwarding We are now moving to ...
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Is there an existing script to automate compiling email address from the "sent" folder of Outlook and OWA into a CSV file?

I'm an employee of a small business and we pay for a task service to manually comb through the "sent" folder of our email accounts and create a list of email addresses we have sent emails to. Though ...
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Accessing multiple Office 365 accounts from OWA

I like accessing Email through the OWA web access method. It lets me have just another Chrome tab with my Email without having to install Outlook or another Email client on my machine. So I have a ...
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OWA 2013 open url with To and Subject fields filled

I've been using OWA 2010 for several years, a I had a way to prefill To and subject fields with this kind of link: https://{server_name}/owa/?ae=Item&a=New&t=IPM.Note&to={to_address}&...
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How to automatically or programmatically add shared mailbox / shared folder to some user's Outlook for Web?

I administer an Office 365 environment. This environment will contain a couple of shared mailboxes. I do not want my users to have to manually add them to their Outlook for Web when having to use them ...
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Office 365 shared calendar all events not appearing

I have added another user to an existing shared calendar in the Outlook Web App on Office 365. The calendar has appeared for the new user but they can only see a very small number of the events on it. ...
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Office 365 rule doesn't run when message arrives

The rule is set up: "When message arrives and is from [address] Forward message to [address,address,address] No exceptions Do not stop running rules this message" Pretty simple, but the rule will ...
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OWA Invites adds descripton and weird characters

When I send an invite, OWA (Or exchange) adds this description (in Spanish in my case) Cuándo: martes, 13 de diciembre de 2016 10:00-11:00. (UTC) Hora universal coordinada *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* There ...
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Mail rule is not applied to certain messages

We are running an Exchange 2013 / Outlook 2016 (Office 365) environment. Some messages, system generated notifications, are not processed correctly by our mail rules. The rules are server-side rules ...
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Why is Outlook removing filenames from embedded pictures

This problem exists in multiple Exchange environments (confrimed on hosted Exchange 2013, Office 365) across mutiple versions of Outlook (confirmed on 2013, 2016) I get an email with an embedded ...
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Understanding OWA logs

I have a number of logs that I think are OWA logs. Titles such as microsoft.o365.shellg2.owa.js microsoft.exchange.clients.owa2.client.calcorestrings.localized.min.js Can anyone help me try and work ...
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Is there an 'undo send" feature in Outlook WebApp 2010?

I'm new to Outlook. I have been using Gmail for a long time and my company switched to Outlook. Gmail has an "undo send" feature. I wanted to know if Outlook Web App 2010 has a similar feature. I'm ...
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Disappearing Calendar Tasks

I have a user using Outlook 2013/Office 365. For some reason he is not able to see calendar tasks before 5 months ago(example he is able to see task from today March 10, 2015 to November 2014, But he ...
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Export and Import Outlook 365 Emails

Export and Import Outlook 365 Emails If I have a conversation of more than 35 messages in the same thread and I want to forward it to another user (i.e. not the whole thread, just those 35 messages) ...
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How to create a shared calendar that can be managed in iCal/iOS

I have accounts on Google Apps and Office 365. I'd like to share a calendar with other people and allow them to make changes (add/edit/delete events) within iCal or iOS. I don't care whether I use ...
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OWA on IE8 cannot access local shared folder, error "network access is denied"

Here's the setup: I'm connecting to an exchange server via OWA (Outlook Web Access) in IE 8 on Windows 7. Everything works as it is supposed to, except that I cannot access a local shared drive when ...
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Shared Mailboxes on Outlook Web Access

Simple question really. When logging on to a shared mailbox via OWA (https://orgname.com/owa/[email protected]) As when the log on page appears for this it asks for the username and password of a ...
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Outlook Web Access: "Outlook Web Access has encountered a Web browsing error"

When one of my colleagues is accessing Outlook Web Access from IE, he frequently gets an error reported: "Outlook Web Access has encountered a Web browsing error". The error report includes ...
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How to prevent recent attachments from showing up in Outlook web

When I click on an email address in Outlook (browser) it shows recent associated attachment previews (for example pictures). How do I prevent this? (I only use the browser version of outlook.)
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Outlook calendar set magnification separately from scheduling increment

Using calendar on outlook web access, on week view, I set the view to 15 minute increments because I want to be able to click to schedule meetings on 15 minute intervals. But that made my calendar ...
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Thunderbird deletes mails after recovering on OWA

By mistake, I deleted all my mails in the inbox in thunderbird. Unfortunately, they didn't show up in deleted items nor in trash. But I found all mails on Outlook Web App under recover deleted mails. ...
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Marking forwarded third party messages as spam in Gmail without marking the forwarder as Spam

I have an Outlook web account that forwards emails to a Gmail account. The Outlook account uses a redirect mail rule to redirect messages sent to the Outlook account to the Gmail account so the email ...
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Prevent a user from changing his own password in OWA

We are using a shared M365 account for an application. The account is shared between 10-15 people. Sometimes someone feels funny and is logging in to Outlook and changes the password. I want to stop ...
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How to setup a rule in Outlook Web Access, for automatically moving mail which contains multiple words into a specific folder?

In Outlook Web Access (OWA), one can setup rules which are applied to all inbound mail, for automatically sorting those mail into specific folders. It seems to be easy to configure a rule which ...
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Format painter Outlook on the web versus the desktop

Shortcuts for format painter in Outlook include Shift+ Ctrl+ C and Shift+Ctrl+ V as well as Alt+H+F+P but none of these work, from my experience, for Outlook web application. Going into “Settings > ...
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Outlook.com css resetting itself to mobile view all the time

I've had this issue for years and i'm the only person it's affecting. I'm documenting this because i can't find anyone talking about it on the internet When i load outlook.com and sign in with my ...
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Microsoft Edge becomes unresponsive with the window a ghostly white when applying fonts and font-styles in the Outlook web app

Yesterday Microsoft Edge became unresponsive on multiple occasions, with the screen a ghostly white, when I was trying to apply font changes to selected text in the Outlook web app. Each time it ...
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Use Outlook Desktop without EWS, IMAP or RPC over HTTP

My organization runs an Exchange 2013 server with OWA and ActiveSync enabled, however they have recently disabled email access via EWS, IMAP and RPC over HTTP (they would not give a reason as to why, ...
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spam email sent from my exchange account but not in my sent items

we have an issue where we are receiving emails from contacts that they have received emails from our users that contain dangerous links in the email. The email being sent is from a previous email ...
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Sending reminder in Outlook for Mac

I was seeking functionality wherein I can send reminders to a couple of folks on specific days at a specific time. I'd want to avoid sending a meeting invite of zero duration since...well...it's not a ...
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Degree to which Outlook Online supports search phrase syntax

I'm very clumsy at using GUIs, so I try to avoid the Outlook Advanced Search GUI. I recently found the following salvations: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/learn-to-narrow-your-search-...
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Outlook Web App does not allow Calibri 11 as default font

Normal Outlook for Windows uses Calibri 11 as default font. When I use Outlook Web Access, the default is Calibri 12 or can be changed in settings to Calibri 10, but not to Calibri 11. If I respond ...
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Transfer of emails from an OWA account to a file on a storage device (e.g. USB stick)

I urgently need to transfer the OWA emails already existing in an OWA account into a file that I can store on a external device (e.g. a USB stick), as the OWA account will very shortly be deleted. ...
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Recovering emails and attachments from an OWA account

I wish to recover emails and attachments from an OWA account and store them on my computer, without using an email client on my computer. It appears that Microsoft does not allow this, but would this ...
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How to filter\search all read receipt in outlook-web-access then delete all of them?

How do I filter\search all read receipt in outlook-web-access then delete all of them? All of them are in my inbox. Version: 14.3.399.0 Client Access server version: 14.3.123.0 Mailbox server ...
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Pasting from OWA to Excel prompts login

We use our OWA for email a lot in our environment and I have noticed that when a user goes to copy text from the OWA and attempt to paste it into Excel, Excel prompts the user to log back into the OWA ...
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How to delete an attachment on outlook 365 when deleting fails

I'm getting the following error message: The following attachments couldn't be deleted: my_document.docx. Please try again later. This appears to be happening for all my attached documents (...
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Getting "Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups" on every received email

in Office 365 I recently converted an email address from a shared mailbox to a user mailbox, but I've noticed that every time we receive an email to that address (even though we DO actually receive it)...
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Is it possible to bcc someone on every email sent from a list in owa

What I want to do is this: -Send an email to a list of recipients -Have one email address bcc'd on every email sent So that this happens: the email is sent to the whole list of recipients and the ...
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How to ensure if an email was sent after a network outage?

I was writing the body of the message, using Outlook web app, while the Internet connection crashed for 10-15 seconds. After the connection got stable (I was in the same page, without refreshing), I ...
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Empty Junk in OWA sends non-read responses

I have set "Settings -> Mail -> Read Receipts: never" in my Outlook Web App (Exchange 2010SP3UR8+) settings. However I noticed that after emptying my Junk folder there was a bounce for a "Subject: Not ...
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