Microsoft Office 365: Rebuilding Your Outlook Profile

Rebuilding your Outlook profile is a basic first troubleshooting step for the application (not the web version). Here is how you do it...

Windows

Two main steps: removing your profile and recreating your profile. First, removing...

1. Quit Outlook.
2. Open the Windows Control Panel
3. Open Mail Microsoft Outlook (32-bit)
4. Select Show Profiles
5. Highlight the profile to remove
6. Select Remove
7. Select OK
8. A prompt pop-up appears. Select Yes.

Now that we have removed your old profile, let's create the new one.

1. Start Outlook
2. Enter "Outlook" into the Profile Name field
3. Select OK
4. Verify the name and email are correct and select Next
5. You may be prompted to enter a username and password
   1. Enter your email address
   2. Enter your Falcon Account password
6. If prompted, select OK
7. From the Congratulations page, select Finish

Mac

1. Quit Outlook.
2. From Finder, open the Applications folder.
3. Ctrl+click or right-click Microsoft Outlook and select Show Package Contents.
4. Open Contents > SharedSupport and launch Outlook Profile Manager.
5. Highlight the profile and click the - button to delete the profile. (Move the profile to the trash bin if asked.)
6. Relaunch Outlook.