In other words, you’re OK unless you or your organization has been deliberately stopping updates for the last four years (unlikely).Ĭurrently Microsoft 365 is around version 2110.Īre all OK - no updates required. Outlook 365 needs to be version 1705 or later (released in June 2017) Specifically affected are MSI installed versions before. If you’re not sure, force an update to Office 2016. 1000 of Office 2013 (Service Pack 1 with the October 2017 Update).Īny Office 2016 that’s been updated in the last few years is OK. Specifically affected are versions before. If you’re not sure, force an update to Office 2013. The following versions of Outlook are affected.Īny Office 2013 that’s been updated in the last few years is OK. Office 2013 and later will be OK as long as they’ve been updated sometime in the last four years. In practice, Microsoft will gradually drop the older connection tech over the coming days and weeks. Officially the change happened on Monday 1 st November. Affected Outlook software will also continue to work, but won’t be able to connect to Microsoft connected mailboxes. The change does NOT mean affected Office will stop working – Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc are NOT involved. Web-based email in any modern browser is always available as a fallback option. Connections to other non-Microsoft services are NOT affected. But it won’t be able to update with the online mailbox or send/receive new messages.
The affected Outlook versions will still work and data stored on the computer is kept intact. Older and now unsupported versions of Outlook don’t have the more secure technology to keep a safe connection to a Microsoft hosted mailbox. Microsoft is ending some old and insecure ways that Outlook connect with their Exchange Server mailboxes. See Warning! Older Outlook soon stop links to Microsoft mailboxes What’s happening? Microsoft announced this many months ago however their latest list of affected software includes some older versions of Outlook 365 for Windows. A reminder that older versions of Outlook for Windows, including some Outlook 365 are ‘ending’ in November 2021, meaning they won’t connect with Microsoft hosted mailboxes, including
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