I live and breath by my calendar. I use Fantastical to have one master calendar that makes scheduling my life so much easier since I have a full-time job, do freelance work, and have a busy personal life.

I started a new job recently that uses Outlook and the IT department pretty much refuses to allow me to share my calendar or even add my personal calendars to Outlook. Everything is locked tight.

I won't pretend to understand whether this is great security or just plain stupid and annoying, but I think you have a pretty good idea how I am taking it. Never had this issue at any of my other jobs.

The best I can do is share to my 3rd party calendar that I am Busy. So in Fantastical it will show the event with the time, but just say "Busy." It's definitely a workable solution, but it's frustrating not being able to see the actual events, and still requires me to use two calendars.

I am begging someone to give me any kind of workaround. I have spent the last few weeks trying to dual wield calendars and I have discovered it's my worst nightmare. I have already made one scheduling mistake. It's also just a nuisance having to cross-reference every time I schedule something.

Please tell me something exists. The only solution I can find is to manually export my calendar file, but I need something live that syncs automatically. That won't work at all. I realistically understand that I am overreacting, but this truly has made my quality of life just a little bit worse so I am just seeking an outside solution.

For the past two weeks I've had a weird issue with my Outlook.com account. I keep getting a sextortion/phishing email (the classic "I hacked your webcam" scam, sender spoofed to look like it's coming from my own address). Every time I delete it, it comes back a bit later with a new timestamp. I actually timed it once: deleted the email and it reappeared exactly 15 minutes after. Tried it again and got the same result, so it doesn't seem random, more like something running on a fixed timer. Things

I've already tried, none of which stopped it:

• Changed password multiple times
• 2FA enabled (authenticator app), removed and recreated
• All sessions signed out ("Sign out everywhere")
• No suspicious mail rules (removed all existing rules, no effect)
• Forwarding disabled
• No third-party apps connected
• Recovery methods (email/phone) confirmed correct
• POP and IMAP disabled
• Changed the account alias

Still comes back every time. At this point I'm fairly sure this isn't something I can fix from my end through normal account settings, feels more like something happening on the server side (hidden rule, corrupted mailbox index, something like that). Has anyone run into this before or know how to get this properly investigated on Microsoft's end? Already went through live chat support but honestly wasn't much help.

Problem 

We encountered an issue where Microsoft 365 email accounts could not be added using: 

• Outlook Legacy for Mac 
• Apple Mail 
• macOS Internet Accounts 

The issue affected: 

• Multiple Microsoft 365 users 
• Multiple Mac devices 
• Newly created macOS user profiles 

Symptoms 

• Outlook for Mac (New Outlook) worked correctly. 
• Outlook on the Web (OWA) worked correctly. 
• Outlook Legacy for Mac failed to add the account. 
• Apple Mail failed during account setup. 
• macOS Internet Accounts returned: 

1     The operation couldn't be completed 

2     (com.apple.accounts error 3) 

• Accessing Exchange Web Services (EWS) from Safari produced an unexpected blank page. 

Initial Checks 

The following items were verified and appeared normal: 

Mailbox Configuration 

1     Get-CASMailbox [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) | FL * 

Relevant settings: 

1     MacOutlookEnabled : True 

2     EwsEnabled        : True 

3     MAPIEnabled       : True 

4     OWAEnabled        : True 

5     ActiveSyncEnabled : True 

Authentication Policies 

1     Get-AuthenticationPolicy 

Result: 

1     No policies configured 

Default Authentication Policy 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | FL DefaultAuthenticationPolicy 

Result: 

1     DefaultAuthenticationPolicy : 

OAuth 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | FL OAuth2ClientProfileEnabled 

Result: 

1     OAuth2ClientProfileEnabled : True 

EWS Application Restrictions 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | FL EwsApplicationAccessPolicy,EwsAllowList,EwsBlockList 

Result: 

1     EwsApplicationAccessPolicy : 

2     EwsAllowList : 

3     EwsBlockList : 

No restrictions were configured. 

Conditional Access 

No Conditional Access policies were found that would block Outlook for Mac or Apple Mail. 

 

Root Cause 

The issue was caused by Exchange Web Services (EWS) being disabled at the organizational level. 

Verification: 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | Select EwsEnabled 

Result: 

1     EwsEnabled : False 

Although individual mailboxes had: 

1     EwsEnabled : True 

EWS was disabled globally for the tenant. 

 

Solution 

Enable EWS organization-wide: 

1     Set-OrganizationConfig -EwsEnabled $true 

Verify the change: 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | Select EwsEnabled 

Expected result: 

1     EwsEnabled : True 

 

Outcome 

After enabling EWS: 

✅ Outlook Legacy for Mac successfully added accounts 

✅ Apple Mail successfully configured Microsoft 365 mailboxes 

✅ macOS Internet Accounts worked correctly 

✅ Existing authentication errors disappeared 

✅ The issue was resolved for all affected users 

 

Key Lesson Learned 

If: 

• Outlook (New) works 
• Outlook Web works 
• Outlook Legacy for Mac fails 
• Apple Mail fails 
• macOS Internet Accounts fails 
• The issue affects multiple users and multiple Macs 

Check the following setting immediately: 

1     Get-OrganizationConfig | Select EwsEnabled 

If it returns: 

1     False 

try: 

1     Set-OrganizationConfig -EwsEnabled $true 

In our environment, this was the root cause and completely resolved the issue. 

Of course I'm far from being alone on that one but here's the day I'm asking: try to filter sender email addresses - which obviously changes all the time - put aside, how can I get rid of all spams I get daily once and for all?

I'll bless anyone who will find THE way to make it happen - if it does exist.

I could not google out anyone reported the same, it seems started last week I noticed a newsletter missing some letters here and there, I even reported it to that prganisation, then this week when I tried to type some emails, even copy paste, it always omit some letters, the whole thing looks like redacted, I cleared outlook app cache, I checked phone (pixel 9 pro) update the latest, keyboard is ok, when using Gmail or some other emails, no problem, is this a unreported glitch? I asked chatgpt and Claude, nothing resolve the issue, but both saying look like rendering issue. i do not want to uninstall the outlook app or reinstall as a few accounts in the app.