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  • I wouldn’t pay for an O365 account just to get that to work, probably better to see if you can just find a free app that doesn’t have them. Thunderbird used to be good years ago and free, but I never used it for Android, just Linux based machines. I’m sure there is someone around Lemmy that has a billion thoughts to share on what clients are ad free, ethical, and don’t cause baby pandas to have a heart attack, haha


  • Yeah that’s gross, from what I’m seeing Microsoft is saying if you do not have an email that is attached to a paid O365 account and have the free mobile app they fund it by those ads. If you do pay for the O365 subscription on your account or your work email is one Id try this: Settings. Tap Security and Privacy >Privacy>Other Privacy Settings> Ads. Tap Reset Advertising ID and confirm your changes.

    If that doesn’t work maybe uninstall the app and reinstall making sure the playstore is logged in with the email tied to the O365 account

    That blows, curious if that does anything.



  • Is that the Outlook coming from the Intune company portal app, or a personal install from the playstore and just adding an email they let you add? Sounds terrible. Most of the work I was doing as to had it all running through Intune, so I didn’t ever see that stuff. I could see how that would turn off most users. On our end just about every time security updates came out it would lock out the ability to access teams, outlook or anything until the updates were performed, and you logged back into the comp portal app to ensure the device was secure against whatever new threat there might be. So you’d have to set up confirm with 2 factors to get signed back in every couple months and require at least a pin to get into your emails.





  • Yeah, Outlook has a lot of little things that throw people. Just getting people to find the view settings they want is tough sometimes, and font size in outlook doesn’t change with the character size of the OS being changed. Automatically disabling com add-ons that are supposed to not disable by group policy do to “slow start times” of outlook. Online calendars are a mess, sync issues, filter issues, spam issues, the spam blockers within the admin console of o365. Convincing people to get rid of .pst files. .pst files not being compatible with onedrive, importing .pst files to their online archive (which is really just a second email storage on the back end). Takes forever, then half don’t import properly, then you get them to re-run it and maybe it works but you have duplicates. Deleted emails that need recovery a month after they realized they needed it.

    Sometimes it makes me realize why companies push users to just use the Webapp, but there’s always something.

    Didn’t even touch the distros or shared emails/calendars yet lol


  • Those do make good passwords though. Had a company switch from 10 characters including special, caps, numbers lower upper requirements to 15+ with no requirements because it still would end up being harder to crack. Started using phrases where you could even put spaces, but in all lower case for me if was much quicker to type

    Tangerine$45 is much harder for me to type than whatthefuckamidoinghere

    I think it’s because I have to pause to think shift 4, then hit 4 and remember if my fingers are still by the 4.

    All just examples but the standard keys… Are all automatic for me because of use.


  • The number of people who think that IT is supposed to know how to use every program and fix everything within those programs is a lot. I’ve had several engineers, programmers, designers, accountants, executives of who knows what consistently ask to fix their work or how to do whatever it is. I always try to point them in the right direction or help but other people in my field hate even that because it sets a precedent that the next time they need help they think they can ask again.

    If I knew all of their jobs thoroughly like they seem to think, I wouldn’t be getting paid half what they are. I would need to be paid twice what they are, to support all of those positions in that way.