Outlook 2013: Control Panel Mail Won't Open --- not just me having this issue

Outlook 2013: Control Panel Mail Won't Open --- not just me having this issue

Outlook 2013's Mail applet will not open from the Control Panel following the June 2016 updates. Click-to-run installations are affected on all operating systems. When users click on the Mail applet the mouse cursor circles, then stops without the applet opening. Right clicking and choosing Open, or using the Run dialog to open the applet also fail.

Microsoft is investigating this issue and until it is fixed, users who need to create a new profile or open a different profile can either open Outlook using the /profiles switch or set a registry key to always display the Choose Profile dialog.

To use the /profiles switch when you open Outlook, open the Run command using Windows key + R then type or paste Outlook.exe /profiles into the Open field and click Ok.

The option to always prompt for a profile when starting Outlook is stored in the registry. To add or change the value, open the registry editor and browse to and change the PickLogonProfile value. If PickLogonProfile does not exist, you'll need to add it.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER|Software​|Microsoft|Exchange|​Client|Options
REG_SZ: PickLogonProfile
Value: 1 = Prompt for a profile to be used; 0 = Always use this profile

(source: EMO)

phases in the windows boot process

Post Boot

PreSession Init

Session Init

Winlogon Init

Explorer Init

default time out value for a GPO

10 minutes

new Office 365 provision --- mail-enabled public folder could not accept external emails

new Office 365 provision --- mail-enabled public folder could not accept external emails

this is a cut-over migration

exchange 2003 to office 365 exchange  online

newly created public folder not getting external emails

bounced

the fix is to change the accepted domain from authoritative to internal relay ....

interesting ---- gotta remember that to do this kind of work for a living

another thing with the O365 public folder is that

the root mailbox is created in the portal

the root public folder is created in the portal

you better assign a owner of the whole pubic structure

all subfolders under that are created by the owner ( a designed owner)

To mail-enable a folder , you go back to the portal to do that

office 365 - exchange online --- its all about auto-discover

office 365 - exchange online --- its all about auto-discover

I am migrating exchange 2003 to O365

without-cuting over, I manually configured outlook 2013 to test

and found out it could not should public folders

it could not should shared mailboxes

I manually edit the hosts file to get those show up

btw ... could not manually configure with outlook 2016

Find which DC a computer is authenticated to

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/40451-find-which-dc-a-computer-is-authenticated-to

echo %logonserver%

reset Azure VM password

could not find my password for my azure VM

even if its a domain controller

I can still reset the password for admin user