All clients or multiple clients

The issues listed below apply to all or multiple email/calendar clients.

Teams Meeting details in (all) calendar clients

  • Any Teams meeting will need need to be sent to the attendee(s) before the details are visible in the event body. The details will not be visible until the event has been saved and/or sent. 

Cannot respond to S/MIME encoded emails in Outlook on the web

  • Individuals who receive an email that is signed with a security certificate, may not be able to respond or forward that message when using the Outlook on the web client. The UW-Madison Office 365 team is working with Microsoft for a solution.
  • Workaround: Use a desktop client to answer S/MIME encoded email.

Cannot print calendar in Outlook on the web's new interface as of 09/2019. Per Microsoft, this is known behavior/issue.

When editing a single instance of a recurring event, the edited event may not appear appropriately for invitees of that event.

Unable to view/open attachment

If a resource calendar is set to auto-accept meeting invitations, the title/subject of the event will list the name of the organizer when the resource calendar is viewed

Desktop versions of Outlook may display some emails in CJK characters (aka. Chinese characters, Han characters, kanji, etc.)

  • Open the problematic email in Outlook, click More Move Actions > Other Actions > Encoding, and then change the encoding to Unicode (UTF-8).
  • Or, open the email via Outlook on the web. If the CJK characters still appear, you will need to open the email in an Outlook desktop client and change the encoding.

Filtering based on which alternate address in the To field does not produce the expected results.

  • The reason for this is because when the message is received and processed within Office 365, the alternate address is replaced by the primary address of the account.
  • A possible workaround for this is to create a matching header rule (It includes these words | in the message header...) instead - and enter the alternate address as the matching words.

When calendaring between different systems (e.g.,Gmail, Yahoo!, etc. to Office 365 and vice versa), the attendee may receive anywhere between 0 and 2 invitations.

  • Similar behavior should be expected when the attendee accepts or declines a meeting, and when the owner of the event cancels the meeting.

UW-Madison Microsoft 365 users cannot add other UW-Madison's 365 email addresses to their safe sender's listing via any Outlook client.

After further review/discussion with Microsoft, this is working as designed. There is no workaround and Microsoft views this as part of their 'secure by default' principles.

If messages are ending up within "Junk Email" folder, please contact DoIT Help Desk so that the M365 service team can review the message.

Note: Even though Outlook clients will appear to add/save the information within the safe sender's list, when you return to this screen, the entry will not appear.

Teams meeting link/information not visible within calendar event until the event is saved

When creating a calendar event which includes a Teams meeting link via Outlook on the web or Outlook for Mac (New version), the Teams meeting link/information will not be visible within body of the event until you save the event.

Microsoft has responded that this is by design and working as expected.

Sending an event invite to an "@groups.wisc.edu" address -- will result in all Office 365 members receiving up to 3 notifications of the event.

  • The attendees will be able to take action on the event invitation from any of the notifications, but only one response is necessary.

If a Novell/GroupWise user invites an Office 365 resource calendar to an all day event, the event may appear from 7:00pm to 7:00pm the next day.

From March 1 - March 31, if an Office 365 user receives an event invitation from an external calendar system, the event time will be one hour behind.

  • This issue occurs because of Daylight Saving Time. Learn more.

Calendar clients may not load/sync or load/sync very slowly.

There are times when you know there are events within a calendar, but your Outlook client is not showing them. What causes this delay:

  • This may occur if recurring event(s) do not have an end date set. To fix this issue, set an end date for all recurring events/meetings. Learn more.
  • All Outlook clients are internally coded to sync your calendars and any other calendar(s) you are subscribed to in the following priority/order:
    • Calendars within the user’s account (like Calendar and any other they have created within their account) – within minutes if not quicker
    • Group calendars – within minutes if not quicker
    • Shared mailboxes (we do not use this feature) – within minutes if not quicker
    • All other subscribed calendars (one you have read, editor, delegate permissions to) – these are synced over a 24-48 hour cycle
  • The UW-Madison Microsoft 365 team has engaged with Microsoft regarding the syncing delay and Microsoft confirmed the syncing priority/order. Unfortunately, the workarounds they provided are not feasible within our environment. At this time, the only solution is to wait up to 48 hours for the data to sync.

Email clients that are configured via IMAP will experience a variety of limitations and performance issues.

  • All clients connecting via IMAP will experience data throttling

    • Throttling causes a reduction of speed when downloading or moving a large number of messages
    • Throttling is controlled by Microsoft and cannot be removed
  • If throttling occurs when you are attempting to move mail, you may lose messages. For information on how to avoid this issue, click here.

  • Most IMAP flags are not supported in Office 365. Only the "Read/unread", "Important", and "Recent" flags are supported

  • If you have a client configured via IMAP, Outlook on the web will show drafts of messages you have already sent in message threads

  • Additional information on how to improve your IMAP client's performance.

Due to the issues listed above, configuring a client via IMAP is not recommended.

Suggested Meeting Add-In places event at incorrect time and/or on incorrect date.

  • Sometimes the Suggested Meeting Add-In does not schedule the event at the correct date/time, even though it did pick up the correct date/time in the email.
  • The event should be deleted and recreated manually.
  • Learn more about Microsoft 365 - Suggested Meetings add-in

Unable to install the plug-in or add-in for an Office application - receive the following error: "Add-in Error Your system administrator has blocked add-ins from the Office Store".

  • If other users are able to install this add-in, then the issue may be related to an Office application setting on the user's computer.

    • Open any Office application.
    • Go to File | Options | Trust Center.
    • Click Trust Center Settings... button.
    • Chose the Macro Settings tab.
    • Make sure to select VBA macros that are digitally signed.
  • If the above steps do not work, please try the following:

    • Open Word application.
    • Go to File | Options.
    • Within 'General' page, click Privacy Settings button with "Privacy Settings" section.
    • Enable Turn on optional connected experiences check box.
    • Restart Office application.

Add-ins not appearing in Outlook for Mac desktop client

  • Add-ins not appearing in Outlook for Mac desktop client even though they are active within the Office 365 account and available within Outlook on the web.
    •  Current Work Around
      1. Start/Open Outlook client.
      2. Go to Outlook | Preferences | Privacy menu.
      3. Make sure "Turn on optional connected experiences" is selected/enabled.
      4. Close Preferences menu.
      5. Restart Outlook.

Similarity function within Spelling and Grammar in Word for Mac is not available

  • If other users are able to use the Similarity feature, then the issue may be related to an Office application setting on the user's computer.
    • Start/Open Microsoft Word.
    • Go to Word | Preferences | Privacy menu.
    • Make sure "Turn on optional connected experiences" is selected/enabled.
    • Close Preferences menu.
    • Restart Word.
  • If the above steps do not work, please try the following:
    • Start/Open Microsoft Word.
    • Go to Word | Preferences | Spelling & Grammar menu.
    • Make sure Writing Style is set to Writing and Grammar.
    • Close Preferences menu.
    • Restart Word.

Problem with resource calendars not automatically processing event invitations and cancellations

Changing your NetID password

  • When changing your NetID password, you must ensure that you update your clients and mobile devices accordingly and restart them because Office 365 has no facility to terminate active client sessions..

Service account display names suddenly changes to include a "." in front of the name

  • Role accounts migrated as service accounts will display with a period in front of the name, for example: the name 'Bucky Badger' will appear as '.Bucky Badger.' To resolve this issue, a domain admin will need to change the first and last name by following the steps provided in this document Microsoft 365 - Change your display name.

User receives bounce-back messages from phish@office365.microsoft.com

  • "phish@office365.microsoft.com" is an account owned/managed by Microsoft. There isn't anything the Office 365 team can do to resolve this issue. Microsoft usually resolves their issues receiving junk within some time. Review Microsoft 365 - Learn about junk email and phishing article to better understand and manage phishing/junk email processes.

When sending as someone else in Outlook desktop client, if you save the message as a draft, it will disappear.

  • The current work around is to not change the 'From address' until you are ready to send the email.

When using Office 365 web services, text appears in a language other than your 'default' Office 365 language

  • Office 365 web services use browser settings to determine language. If you have multiple languages configured within a browser for translation or other purposes, Microsoft may recognize one of these additional languages and translate text automatically. Remove any additional languages besides the one which you would like to be displayed on Office 365 Web Services from your browser's settings.

Sending a message to a Google Group causing a large amount of auto replies

    • Here is the workflow for this scenario to occur:

      • A UW-Madison Office 365 user is a member of the group
      • The Office 365 account has auto reply (out of office) enabled
      • This same account is configured in Apple Mail client
      • This account has sent or replied to a message using the Apple Mail client to the Google Group 

    • The above will cause an automatic reply to be sent for each additional response or reply to the Google Group conversation.

    • The workaround for this is to only use Outlook clients when interacting with your Office 365 account.