Tag: Outlook Profiles
Understanding best practices to protect Outlook data
A question/issue seen frequently is how to protect Outlook data on machines used by multiple users. To summarize what can and can’t be done Once a user is logged into the Windows account, there is no way to password protect an Outlook profile which means any user can open Outlook using any existing profile by […]
How to create an Outlook 2016 profile without an email account
After Office 365 (Office 2016) has been installed, you will be prompted to configure an email account. Not everyone wants to use Outlook as their email client or only want to use it to maintain their contact and calendar data. Unlike earlier versions of Outlook, the only way to eliminate the constant prompt to configure […]
How to Add-Change-Recreate an Outlook Mail Profile
There are a wide variety of reasons to create a new Outlook profile which would include reasons like multiple people using the same machine with different accounts needing one profile for travelling outside your area and another locally changing server or password details for an email account trying to resolve an unexplained problem Making changes […]
Understanding Outlook Navigation Pane
With Outlook generally now defaulting to using the email account address for the name of the associated Outlook data file for the account, a frequent misconception is that the Outlook Navigation Pane represents the email accounts configured for the profile, which is incorrect. The Outlook Nav Pane has one entry for every <data file> configured […]
Understanding the Outlook Profile
All key information related to email accounts used by a user is maintained in an Outlook profile. The two other primary components that are of most interest are the data files configured in the profile along with the sort order used to present contact data info in the Outlook AddressBook. This article is primarily for […]
