Outlook.com alias sign-ins now enabled
Microsoft made several big announcements today. Earlier this day we looked at the two-step verification feature that the company is currently rolling out to provide Microsoft account owners with additional security options to protect their account with a second layer of authentication. The new security feature is available for the majority of Microsoft products including the email service outlook.com.
That's however not the only new feature that outlook users can make use of as of today. Another adds the option to sign in to outlook.com with any alias that you have configured for your account. Aliases are other email addresses that you may have linked to your Microsoft account. Up until now, you could only sign up with your primary account name and none of the aliases. If you wanted to change the login username, you had to rename your account which was a complicated process and problematic for Windows Phone users as some needed to reset their phone before they were able to make use of the new account username.
Microsoft added the ability to sign in to its email service outlook.com using any alias that you have linked to your account.
Microsoft account owners can manage and add aliases here on this page. The page does not seem to be available for all users though and it is likely that it will be rolled out just like the two-step authentication feature will be rolled out in the coming days.
The feature should appeal to Outlook users who have linked multiple email addresses to their account and do not want to be restricted to a single username when signing in.
In related news, Microsoft furthermore enabled 32 new Outlook.com email address domains for users to select their email addresses from. So, if you want to use a country specific outlook.com email address then it is now possible to do so. The change will be rolled out in the coming days as well.
You can read more about the upcoming changes on the Outlook blog.
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It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!