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Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees (www.theregister.com)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I work in government, and on mobile devices Outlook government accounts are restricted so that all other accounts have to be removed from the app.

It sounds like a great security feature, but since I need access to 3 accounts for reasons, I've got one version installed on my city phone, one on my tablet, and had to install another on my personal phone.

We're budgeting in a second city phone for me next year because Outlook sucks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If this is Android look into enrollment which will use separate storage called work profile so you will essentially have 2 independent copies of Outlook. Or it might be possible to have second copy of Outlook depending on your Android flavour. Samsung has Secure Folder for example.

And if these 3 mailboxes belong in same organization, you can utilize delegation and add them as shared mailboxes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I've tried the shared mailbox thing. I had it at my last city and it worked fine, but our third-party IT service contractor here is the shittiest I've ever heard of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, experience can be wildly different depending who manages environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

They took 3 weeks to attach my new plotter to the network because they didn't know how to figure out how to trace a fucking Cat 5 cable.

We have 12 employees in the city. My home office has a more complicated network closet.