

Switching to the all-new Outlook for Mac? Let us know what you think in the comments. A direct download from Microsoft is also available, although Handoff between Apple devices requires the App Store release. Outlook for Mac is available for free on the App Store.

Features from the mobile app include Microsoft’s Focused Inbox feature for filtering out unwanted emails, and swipe gestures let you snooze and do more on the Mac. The new version will be very familiar to users of Outlook for iPhone and iPad. Microsoft calls Outlook for Mac a redesign and rebuild from the ground up. Outlook Profiles will integrate with Focus modes and give you individual control over separate work and personal inboxes. View all commentsįor Focus users, Microsoft promises an upcoming update that will integrate Outlook with Apple’s notification modes feature. Quite apart from the confidentiality and GDPR issues behind this unnecessary breach of privacy, one reason I use non-MS email for personal accounts is so that I don't have all my eggs in one basket when MS inevitably goes down. I absolutely would not use it for additional email accounts such as IMAP as they upload all your email to their servers and use it for advertising. Assistanceįor assistance, contact the Service Desk.MS Office on the Mac is so bad I use a Parallels/Windows VM instead. To view the other user's calendar in Outlook for Mac, ask the calendar owner to grant at least "Reviewer" access. The web client will display free/busy information for other users' calendars. Method 2: Use Outlook on the WebĪccess Outlook on the Web at. Outlook for Mac will then show their free/busy information. Resolution Method 1: Use the Scheduling AssistantĬreate an appointment and add the person as an attendee. To see free/busy information in Outlook for Mac, the mailbox owner must grant at least "Reviewer" rights. In Outlook for Mac, an error is displayed instead. In Outlook for Windows, if you open a calendar that you don't have any explicit permissions to, Outlook will show you the free/busy information for that person. This is a known limitation of the Outlook for Mac client:

You do not have permission to open this folder. In Outlook for Mac, when I try to view some people's calendars, I get the message "Outlook cannot open the folder.
