

In this scenario, we can use the Office 365 Support and Recovery Assistant for locating for us a possible problem that prevents the task of creating a new Outlook mail profile + download the require software update or fix the problems that were discovered + create for us a new Outlook mail profile. In a scenario in which we are not aware of this requirement or in scenarios in which, although we implemented the required requirements, we still cannot complete the task of creating a new Outlook mail profile, we can use the help of the Office 365 Support and Recovery Assistant. Technically speaking, there are pre-requirements and best practices that need to be implemented before we try to configure a new Outlook mail profile for Office 365 users. Apparently it also changed something on my Outlook installation but who cares.One of the most common troubleshooting scenarios in Office 365 and the Exchange Online environment described as – cannot create a new Outlook mail profile. I wanted to get the email account in the existing profile however, but that wasn’t an issue either anymore … Just went over the process of adding the new email account like I used to and now it magically added the account without issues at all. It runs you through a series of questions and analyses the settings (for Outlook 2016 and Office365 in this case) to find that it had issues getting the mail properties, fixed it and created a new Outlook profile that actually worked! The post above however didn’t provide me with a solution so I searched a little bit further until I ran into this little gem: I’m not the only one given the posts like this one: So with the new year I decided to give it another go and see if I could solve it looking at it with a fresh mindset.

if the problem continues, contact your email administrator." message and no options to add information manually in Outlook 2016. Giving me the "something went wrong and outlook couldn’t set up your account. I had issues adding a specific Office365 email account to my Outlook 2016 desktop application on one of my machines for a while now.
