Microsoft removes the Team’s and Manager’s Calendar Groups from Outlook

In their never-ending quest to dumb down Outlook’s interface, the folks at Microsoft has decided to get rid of yet another feature. This time around, the impacted functionalities are the Team’s and Manager’s Calendar Groups in Outlook, or in other words the ability to quickly access all your direct reports’ or …

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How to add a shared mailbox as additional account in Outlook 2016 (build 8431 and above) on Windows 10 (1709 and above)

The question of adding your shared mailbox(es) in Outlook remains one of the most common ones, mainly because Microsoft has failed to put a proper guidance on the differences between adding a shared mailbox as additional mailbox vs adding it as additional account. To address this, I posted the How to …

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Outlook takes too long to discover your settings

​In case you run into slow account setup with the newly released Outlook 2016 version (and later), which can take up to 10 mins or more, here’s a possible fix. Add the following key to your registry: This is caused by some bug (or leftover debug code) that forces Outlook to …

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