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Outlook calendar - see who has accepted a meeting without being the meeting organizer

I know this is an old thread about Outlook 2010, but it was the first search result addressing the same question for Outlook 2016. Informed guesses are as close as you can get if you're not the ...
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What is Exchange Activesync Policies Broker, and why is it constantly showing UAC prompts?

Exchange ActiveSync Policies Broker is the program that implements Exchange ActiveSync policies, which are a way for the administrators of large organizations to manage the security of devices that ...
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How do I get Outlook to open multiple calendars each time I start

I ran across this post while trying to solve the same problem in Outlook 2013. Short answer is that Outlook simply can't "remember" what calendars you had selected if you start it in Calendar view. ...
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Office 2016: Disallow sign-in to Office, but continue using Office 365 email in Outlook

Add the following registry key: HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity\EnableADAL=0 This disables Modern Authentication on your home computer, which is what is causing your home Office/...
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Thunderbird 78 won't connect to Exchange-backed IMAP account

Thunderbird 78 now uses the same default settings like Firefox for TLS connections: Only TLS 1.2+ is allowed by default. If your Exchange server is a bit older and only support up to TLS 1.1 then ...
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Does changing the MX records on Tucows DNS affect POP/IMAP?

If I change the MX records, will the incoming email be diverted to the Microsoft server (once the DNS propagation has completed): Yes. Remote email services use the MX record to tell where to send ...
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Is there a way to permanently delete Exchange/Outlook email while away?

I am using outlook 2016 and came here to find that it is not possible; however I then continued to proceed with my rule to send certain items to the deleted items and on 2016 there is now an option to ...
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Outlook Reminders showing other people's reminders

By default, reminders are only shown for mailboxes added in the Account Settings section of Outlook. If this users only needs to view the calendars and not the actual mailboxes, they'll need to ...
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Under which username will this URL show up?

Impossible to answer – it completely depends on how your IT team obtains those domains. There is no standard method for stalking domain users. (Additionally, corporate IT is off-topic.) A few ...
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Outlook Vacation Event Invite; I'm Out of Office; team's aware

The way that I solve this is by using the "Save changes but don't send" option. So I first create a new out of office meeting, but I make sure to mark the "Show As" status to Free. I also turn off ...
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Two Outlook Profiles Simultaneously

No, it is not possible to open 2 Outlook profiles simultaneously. You can change the option in Control Panel -> Mail to prompt you for which profile you want to open every time you start Outlook. ...
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Outlook Rule Not Working Correctly

I suspect the reason is because Sysmon is a Linux appliance using a non-Exchange client to send out the alerts. When I try to modify the From field of the rule, Outlook resolves Sysmon to an actual ...
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Emails sent from group mailbox do not appear in the mailbox's sent folder

From what I can see, this feature is disabled by default in Exchange 365 From the article Want more control over Sent Items when using shared mailboxes? : It can be enabled by setting feature ...
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Migration Endpoint - firewall settings - required open ports?

In my case, the solution was to enabled "Basic" authentication on EWS virtual directory. Windows Integrated auth was already enabled. Regards, Laeeq Qazi
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Finding BCC in Internet mail headers

Here is the simple test case I have created for the BCC field. Create new email with BCC only. Check the raw message at received end(Here I sent to Gmail). If you have a close look on the raw ...
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Is it possible using regular expression in inbox rule criteria

I'm sorry but currently Outlook rules (up to Outlook 2016) don't support regular expressions. The current way rules work, are that they can look for [SomeWord] in any place in the subject, but you ...
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Outlook calendar - see who has accepted a meeting without being the meeting organizer

If I want to see who is attending a meeting that I have not organised, I simply click on the relevant meeting in the calendar, then press the 'Respond' button in the top menu, then select 'Respond All'...
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Can't connect Mac Mail to MS Exchange after password reset

I support a few hundred iPhones and get this issue from time to time. I'd guess the root issue is in the shared code for the Apple Mail app. The fix is to remove the account from the device entirely, ...
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Can my personal iPhone be wiped remotely via Exchange ActiveSync?

If I'm reading the documentation on this feature correctly, then if the account is added as a system-wide account, the answer is yes. If you are just using the Outlook app and have your Exchange ...
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Outlook for exchange accounts

Have you enabled the New Outlook switch? If you enabled the New Outlook switch, you would indeed get the situation as "2. Exchange is not available (Coming soon)". Microsoft has released the ...
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I have a second Inbox folder with a blue rightward arrow, it is empty and I can't delete it

Solved: From Microsoft Docs on incorrect folder names Folder names are changed unexpectedly (for example, the Inbox folder and the Outbox folder are switched). This issue may occur after Exchange ...
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Outlook Not Getting E-mail Unless Restarted

I was having a similar issue as this and found a solution I figured I would share here. Summary In my case, the user has access to multiple mailboxes and was caching all of them. Which seemed to ...
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Outlook PST export does not include mail that have not been downloaded

By default Outlook preserves only small amount of recent emails locally (Cached Exchange Mode enabled) and when you scroll down to see old emails, it downloads them from exchange server while you are ...
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What is Exchange Activesync Policies Broker, and why is it constantly showing UAC prompts?

I was suddenly having this issue every 10-30 minutes even though I was not signed in using a Microsoft account and I had never opened the Mail app. After opening the Mail app to see if that was ...
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Organizational Email Footer in O365, but with S/MIME Certificates

Short answer: No, if your message is S/MIME signed you cannot add a footer without invalidating the signature. Long answer: While an added footer would invalidate the message, it is possible to ...
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Emails sent from group mailbox do not appear in the mailbox's sent folder

Outlook 2010 supports more than one primary exchange mailboxes. In order for this to work, you need to manually add the mailboxes in exchange. This way, all settings regarding to the mailbox are kept ...
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In Outlook profile how to change check name server

That is coming from autodiscover and it is getting populated with the CASArray name that corresponds to the mailbox. The external name should get populated in another spot that has to do with the ...
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OWA wont work with Chrome?

Try to install the older version of the chrome the newer version wasn't supporting the OWA. In our office also we had the same problem.Later i have installed firefox for an alternate.
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Outlook 2016 keeps crashing

This has been solved. I created a new profile and it solved the issue. Thank you to those who commented and viewed.
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