Outlook and Two-Step Authentication for Outlook.com and Hotmail accounts

Outlook and Two-Step Authentication for Outlook.com and Hotmail accounts

After setting up Two-Step Verification on Outlook.com, I've been unable to connect Outlook with my Outlook.com account and am repeatedly being prompted for my password.

I know I am putting in the correct password as it still works when I try to log on to the website.

How can I gain access to my Outlook.com account again from Outlook without disabling the Two-Step Verification?

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Creating a distribution list from an Excel document

Creating a distribution list from an Excel document

I have an Excel document with a list of e-mail address. I know how to import these as individual contacts but I don’t need that.

How can I import them as a new Distribution List instead?

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Sorting and grouping mail by Contact

Sorting and grouping mail by Contact

I’ve been trying to sort my mail into groups by Contact so that I can see how much communication I have had with specific people over a course of time.

However, when I set my view to sort and group by the From field, it still creates multiple groups per contact such as:

  • First Last
  • 'First Last'
  • First Last <name@domain.com>
  • name@domain.com

And sometimes even various other groups. This is anything but useful to me.

How can I really sort my emails from a single contact together?

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Not all Outlook.com contacts synch with Outlook

Not all Outlook.com contacts synch with Outlook

I’ve configured Outlook with my Outlook.com account and even though my Email and Calendar gets synched just fine, my contacts don’t.

I’ve got plenty of contacts in the People section of Outlook.com but only a few of them actually sync to Outlook.

How can I get all my contacts to sync with Outlook?

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Increase the New Mail Desktop Alert duration for Outlook 2013 on Windows 8

Increase the New Mail Desktop Alert duration for Outlook 2013 on Windows 8

In Outlook 2010 on Windows 7, I was able to alter the “New Mail Desktop Alert” duration to up to 30 seconds in Outlook or perpetual via your mentioned Registry key modification.

Now that I’m using Outlook 2013 on Windows 8, the new mail alerts are only visible for 5 seconds and I can’t find an option to change that in Outlook 2013 nor does the Registry hack do anything.

Is there a way to get these mail alerts to show for longer than 5 seconds for Outlook 2013 on Windows 8?

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Contact picture sync for Outlook.com contacts

Contact picture sync for Outlook.com contacts

I’ve added pictures to my Outlook.com contacts in Outlook. However, when I look at my Contacts on the Outlook.com website or in Outlook on another computer, I don’t see the contact pictures I added.

How can I get the pictures to synch to Outlook.com so that they look the same on all my computers and on the Outlook.com website?

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Sync Slider for delegated and shared Exchange mailboxes

Sync Slider for delegated and shared Exchange mailboxes

I’ve been granted access to several large mailboxes and Public Folders which I’ve marked as Favorite. As I’m also regularly off-line, I’ve configured Outlook to also cache this shared content. However, the result is that I now have a really big ost-file.

I was hoping that with the Sync Slider feature in Outlook 2013, I was able to limit how much was being cached and reduce the size of the ost-file. I’ve set the Sync Slider now to 30 days and it seems to work on my own mailbox but it doesn’t have the same effect on my shared mailboxes and Public Folders.

Does the sync slider affect these shared folders at all? If not, what alternatives do I have to reduce the total size of my ost-file?

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Search Folder support in OWA 2013

Search Folder support in OWA 2013

After my mailbox got upgraded to an Exchange 2013 server, I now have the new Outlook Web App 2013 layout as well for reading my emails in a browser. However, I’m now missing my Search Folders.

I’ve already tried to recreate and re-upload them via Outlook as I also had to do for OWA 2010 but my Search Folders are still not visible in OWA 2013.

How do I get access to my Search Folders again in OWA 2013?

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Let Outlook read your emails out loud

Let Outlook read your emails out loud

At work, they’ve implemented Unified Messaging for Exchange. A really cool thing is that I now can call a number to get access to my mailbox via Outlook Voice Access (OVA) and have my emails read out loud.

As I sometimes don’t feel like reading emails (like long emails or memos), I was wondering;

Can Outlook read my emails out loud as well?

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Creating/Managing groups for Outlook.com accounts

Creating/Managing groups for Outlook.com accounts

I am a new user of Outlook 2013. Before this I was using online Outlook.com and Outlook 2010 in combination with the Outlook Hotmail Connector.

When I installed Office 365, Outlook 2013 seemed to have set everything up fine. However, I want to create a simple contacts group for my email but the button for "New Contacts Group" is greyed out on the Home tab of the People module.

How can I create create a new Contact Group in Outlook 2013?

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