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Microsoft is finally rolling out a fix for an issue known since August and causing Outlook for Microsoft 365 to freeze and crash right after it's opened. "When you start Outlook Desktop, it gets past loading profile and processing, briefly opens, and then stops responding," Microsoft explains.
Microsoft is investigating a known issue affecting Outlook for Microsoft 365 users and preventing them from creating Teams meetings using the app's ribbon menu. The Teams Meeting add-in, as its name says, can be found in the Calendar view and it enables Outlook users to schedule a Teams meeting from Outlook.
Microsoft is investigating customer reports of a known issue causing Outlook for Microsoft 365 to freeze and crash right after opening. According to a new support document published by Redmond on Thursday, these Outlook desktop client crashes will be automatically logged and can be confirmed by checking the Windows Event Viewer Application Log for Event 1000 or Event 1001.
Microsoft says the Outlook email client will crash when opening and reading emails with tables such as Uber receipt emails. "When opening, replying, or forwarding some emails that include complex tables, Outlook stops responding," the company explains in a support document.
Strange things are afoot in the world of Microsoft email with multiple users reporting unusual sign-in notifications for their Outlook accounts. While an unusual sign-in activity email should always be treated with suspicion, the twist here is that the IP address at the root of the issue appears to originate within Microsoft itself.
Admins were also told that they could find more information regarding these ongoing problems in the admin center under EX401976 and OL401977. While Redmond did not reveal the scale of the issue, thousands of reports have been submitted in the past 24 hours on DownDetector by Outlook and Exchange Online users who have either been unable or experienced difficulties when trying to log in or email.
Microsoft is investigating an issue causing Outlook search not to display recent emails in desktop apps running on Windows 11 systems. "When searching in Outlook Desktop on Windows 11 you might not see the most recent emails in the search results," Microsoft explains.
A phishing campaign using fake voicemail notifications has been and is still targeting various US-based organizations, in an attempt to grab employees' Office365 and Outlook login credentials, Zscaler warns. The campaing seems to be a repeat of a previous, similar one, and targets security solution providers, software security developers, supply-chain organizations in manufacturing and shipping, healthcare and pharmaceutical firms, and the US military.
Microsoft says the Outlook PDF preview feature might be broken for some Microsoft 365 customers on systems where the company's PowerToys open-source toolset is also installed. According to Microsoft, one of the reasons this error is displayed is the PDF preview File Explorer add-on bundled with Microsoft PowerToys.
A sophisticated phishing campaign directed at a "Major, publicly traded integrated payments solution company located in North America" made use of DocuSign and a compromised third party's email domain to skate past email security measures, researchers said. The campaign spread seemingly innocuous emails around the company, with the goal of stealing Microsoft login credentials, researchers at Armorblox revealed.