New Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Receive reminders when offline
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What the notice says
Microsoft’s text, safely structuredUpdated January 5, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Coming soon for new Microsoft Outlook for Windows: While offline, users will continue to receive reminders without interruption and can snooze and dismiss reminders.
When this will happen
General Availability: We will begin rolling out early March 2025 (previously early November) and expect to complete by late April 2025 (previously early December).
How this will affect your organization
Before this rollout: Users were not always able to receive reminders from new Outlook for Windows when offline.
After this rollout, to enable this feature, users will need to make sure Reminders are enabled in Settings:
- Outlook for Windows > Settings (gear icon in top right of screen) > General > Notifications.
- Expand the Calendar section and select Reminder as the notification style.
Users can also manually display Reminders from View > Reminders in Mail and Calendar views.
Users can access Reminders on the Outlook's View tab:
This feature is on by default and available to all new Outlook for Windows users.
What you need to do to prepare
This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.
Learn more: Add or delete notifications or reminders in Outlook - Microsoft Support
Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.
What changed
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October 15, 2024:January 5, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. … interruption and can snooze and dismiss reminders. When this will happen: GeneralAvailability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, and DoD):Availability: We will begin rolling out earlyNovember 2024March 2025 (previouslylate August)early November) and expect to complete byearly December 2024late April 2025 (previously earlyOctober).December). How this will affect your organization: Before this rollout: Users were not …- Tags
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Updated October 15, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon for new Microsoft Outlook for Windows: While offline, users will … Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, and DoD): We will begin rolling out
late Augustearly November 2024 (previously late August) and expect to complete by earlyOctober 2024.December 2024 (previously early October). How this will affect your organization: Before this rollout: Users were not …- Tags
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