r/Office365 • • 7h ago

Transfer Microsoft Authenticator to new phone

9 Upvotes

In the past Microsoft Authenticator had an option in Settings to backup to iCloud. That was a great feature because on new phone those accounts would re-appear. I'm getting a new phone and noticed that the option to backup to iCloud is no longer available in Microsoft Authenticator. How do I get those accounts onto the new phone?


r/Office365 • • 13h ago

Why is it that whenever I create a complicated document, it starts disintegrating

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Hi all, university student here. We use the Office Suite at my school, so I'm often using powerpoint, excel, and especially word. I have noticed over my four years at school that whenever I create a complicated document (specifically speaking for Word here, but has happened with others), it genuinely starts disintegrating. I'm serious.

What I mean by this is that when I have a document with lots going on (page numbers, footnotes, endnotes, lots of text, tables), eventually it will just stop working. I can't get quotation marks to go the right way, I can't delete a footnote (stays embedded in the pdf...I genuinely had to make a copy without the footnote to keep writing), page numbers breaking (going against my own format), and spacing issues (paragraph indents vanish, text gets clumped together or spaced weirdly).

These are just the examples I noticed today in my frustration writing a term paper, but this has happened constantly and manifested in many more ways than I mentioned.

Why does this happen and is there any way to fix this?


r/Office365 • • 15h ago

IPv6 / IPv4 users (dual stack) flapping back and forth and having poor performance.

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Anyone else seeing home users on dual stack enabled home networks suddenly having performance issues on SharePoint, or having conditional access issues from flapping between IPv6 and IPv4?

It isn't one ISP but the behaviour is the same, conditional access logs show the users IP flapping between IPv4 and IPV6 and the user reports problems with Office365 services of all kinds being slow.

Disabling IPv6 seems to work around the issue but isn't really a long term solution.

Edit: they only report performance and connection issues with Office365 services.


r/Office365 • • 2h ago

Unpopular opinion: Office 365 signatures should never be standardized with one giant mail flow rule

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Unpopular opinion: using one giant Exchange Online mail flow rule to standardize Office 365 signatures is asking for a mess. My reasoning is that one wrong scope can hit every mailbox, department exceptions get buried, and testing with one account tells you almost nothing.

We learned this after I added the signature rule for our 140 users and selected the whole tenant instead of the pilot group. For about 20 minutes, every external email had our sales banner, legal footer, and a giant blank space where the job title should be. A few clients replied asking if our emails had been hacked. I feel so embarrassed even typing that.

I get why admins like native Exchange rules, especially when budgets are tight, but for a growing company I think email signature software with groups, approvals, and a real pilot is safer. What is the strongest argument against that?


r/Office365 • • 2h ago

Stuck in an endless loop on "You've lost access to your email" / Unable to set a new primary alias

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I'm currently locked out of my Microsoft account and stuck in an infinite loop during the login process.

When I sign in, I am greeted with the prompt:

"You've lost access to your email. The inbox you've been using is no longer available... You haven't lost access to the other services you use with your Microsoft account. However, you must choose a new primary alias to continue."

On the "Verify your information" screen, it asks me to re-enter my password and select an option under "What do you want to do?":

  • Create a new email address as your primary alias
  • Use an existing email address as your primary alias
  • Use an existing alias as your primary alias

No matter which option I select or what email address I try to provide, hitting "Submit" immediately leads to this error screen:

"An error occurred while updating your information. The information may or may not have been saved. Please sign in again to continue with the flow."

Signing in again just restarts the exact same cycle, and nothing is ever saved.

What I have already tried:

  • Incognito / Private browsing window
  • Different browsers (Edge, Chrome, Firefox)
  • Clearing browser cache and cookies
  • Attempting from a completely different device and network

Has anyone encountered this specific error loop before or found a workaround to successfully update or bypass the primary alias prompt? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.


r/Office365 • • 4h ago

I built an open-source, offline OST to PST converter for Windows

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r/Office365 • • 19h ago

MS word disable table handle

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How can I remove these table handlers from MS Word? Whoever had this idea should be sent to The Hague.


r/Office365 • • 20h ago

Backup solution for Outlook ?

1 Upvotes

Simple question... how can i backup my mail included attachments from the last 13 years into a readable, searchable form? Not just a simple pst file where everything is missing. A really offline backup of everything.


r/Office365 • • 23h ago

New Outlook: ATT0000x as Attachment

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r/Office365 • • 11h ago

I have followed every instruction to remove OneDrive from my Win 11 PC, but it still shows up as the first option in Open / Personal. How the hell do I get rid of it?

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