November 17 2017 Focused Inbox is finally coming to Outlook 2016 for Windows, in Version 1711 for all Office 365 Business/Enterprise subscribers and Outlook.com. The Targeted and Semi-annual builds provide Office customers a slower update path from Monthly. Users on the Targeted channel will have it in Outlook desktop in March 2018, while the Semi-Annual channel will get it in the semi-annual channel update released after March 2018. Users seem to either love Focused Inbox or hate it and the ones who love it can’t wait to have it working in Outlook. The delay is due to client-side requirements. Sep 14, 2017 If you use the Office Deployment Tool to install Microsoft Outlook from your Office 365 subscription, the Focused Inbox may be missing. The Show Focused Inbox button doesn’t appear in the ribbon. This issue is observed in Office Deployment Tool version 16.0.8008.3601. Focused Inbox initially required Office 365 modern authentication be enabled and Outlook version 1703 or higher. How to change google hangouts to another account on google chrome for mac. Modern auth is now enabled by default on new tenants but if it was disabled by the administrator, users won’t have the focused inbox option in Outlook with version 1710 or older. Starting with Version 1711 (build 16.0.8730), modern authentication is no longer a requirement and all Office 365 and Outlook.com users will have focused inbox capability in Outlook 2016 for Windows. Also See ' When the Focused Inbox is available in your account, Outlook will pop up a dialog alerting you to the new feature and ask if you want to use it. If you are unfamiliar with the Focused Inbox, Outlook sorts your mail by what it thinks is important, classifying some mail (mostly bulk mail) as the less important, 'Other'. This is a special view, not a folder, and the mail remains in the Inbox. The Focused Inbox in Outlook 2016 for Windows. (Click on All to select Unread) The Focused Inbox in Outlook 2016 for Mac. In this mailbox, there are 3 new messages in the Other tab. If you say Yes then change your mind, you can turn the Focused Inbox off from the View tab in Outlook for Windows or on the Organize tab in Outlook for Mac. It's also on the All menu (formerly By [field]) in Windows and on the By: [field] menu in Mac. ![]() If messages are misclassified as either Other or Focused, right click on the message and choose Move to the [Focused or Other]. When Focused Inbox is turned off, the only tab you'll see is Inbox; Unread and Mentioned were removed as tabs but are on the All menu (and work with Focused Inbox enabled). Hi Diane, Me and my customers have our mailboxes on Intermedia's hosted Exchange. We want to try/use Focused Inbox on Outlook for Windows & MacOS. We have the correct versions of Outlook to support FI. BUT Intermedia is telling me that FI is NOT compatible with 3rd party hosted Exchange. It only works with Office 365 Exchange Online mailboxes hosted directly with MS. Do you know if there's any truth to that? I couldn't find a definitive answer Googling. I tried adding the FI button manually to my Outlook 2016 for Windows, as you suggested in an earlier comment. The really puzzling thing is that FI is working FINE for my Outlook app for iOS. Which seems to tell me that my Intermedia hosted Exchange mailbox DOES in fact support FI. But only for iOS, not for Win/MacOS. ![]() Thanks as always!!!! Thanks Diane. I got a similar answer from Intermedia about FI on Outlook iOS app. But they thought the filtering was all on the client-side. I think your explanation of it being done in the cloud seems more plausible. As for the Outlook Win/Mac version of FI, I'm getting the impression that that may not be a 'benign' display filter, like the iOS version seems to be, but rather a more active, 'permanent' moving of messages to folders like 'Focused'. Mush client. Contents [] Operating systems The operating systems the clients can run on. If so, I/we may have to re-evaluate our interest in FI. I was assuming/hoping that MS's 'Focused Inbox' would be handled similarly to Gmail's 'Priority Inbox' but I guess not? >> As for the Outlook Win/Mac version of FI, I'm getting the impression that that may not be a 'benign' display filter, like the iOS version seems to be, but rather a more active, 'permanent' moving of messages to folders like 'Focused'. Messages aren't 'moved', they are just 'tagged' as less important and shown on the other tab. Turn off FI and everything is in one folder. This should be identical to the Priority inbox in gmail. (For me, this is a big plus over clutter - i hated messages being moved to a new folder.
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