
Once the option has been enabled (there is no check box next to it), your auto Send/Receive should start working again.It’s a toggle, so clicking will either enable or disable it, depending on the setting. If you only have a few accounts it is easy to get to the option but if you are like me and have a lot of accounts in your Outlook profile, you need to scroll all the way down at the very end of the account listing and click on the option Disable Scheduled Send/Receive. At the bottom of the listing you will find the option to Disable Scheduled Send/Receive.In Outlook 2016, on the Send / Receive tab, click on the drop-down option Send/Receive Groups.To fix the problem you need to clear the option Disable Scheduled Send/Receive in Outlook 2016. I haven’t figure out exactly why it gets disabled. For some reason, the option to Send/Receive messages gets disabled in Outlook. This wasn’t a total surprise considering that support for Outlook 2007 itself stopped on Octoalready.This solution has worked for me both in Outlook 2013 a couple of years ago, and again in Outlook 2016 today. However, as of October 31, 2017, Office 365 dropped support for Outlook 2007 as well. The only exception to this was when you were connecting to an Office 365 Exchange 2016 server. Exchange versions and Outlook supportĮxchange support works in the same way, so Exchange 2016 will no longer support Outlook 2007. Proper configuration of the Autodiscover and Outlook Anywhere service can be tested via the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer.įor more information about configuring the Autodiscover and Outlook Anywhere service see: Autodiscover: Some quick methods to get it working. When Auto Account Setup fails, contact your Exchange administrator as it would indicate a configuration issue with the Autodiscover service in the Exchange environment.
#HELP WITH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2016 UPDATE#
Instead of using the manual configuration use the Auto Account Setup wizard.ĭepending on your Update Channel of Office, you either only have to fill out your email address or need to provide your name, email address and password and your Exchange account will be automatically configured by the settings that are being pushed from the Autodiscover service of Exchange.ĭon’t make it any harder for yourself than needed The new Add Account dialog only requires your to fill out the email address of the account you want to add.Įven in the old Auto Account Setup dialog, you are only really required to fill out your email address to add an Exchange account. This was a legacy configuration screen that was only needed for Exchange 2003 and previous and didn’t really serve a purpose anymore for later versions of Exchange. The option to manually configure an Exchange account has been removed in Outlook 2016. Note: To determine your current version of Exchange from within Outlook see: Which Exchange version am I using? Configuring an Exchange account in Outlook 2016 How do I configure an Exchange account in Outlook 2016?Īs a general rule of thumb, any version of Outlook supports 5 different Exchange versions.How can I check which version I’m currently using?.Which versions of Exchange does Outlook 2016 support?.I’m thinking about giving Outlook 2016 a try but I know we are not using the latest version of Exchange.
