After installing Outlook 2013 I followed the guidance on setting up an Outlook.com account. This has worked flawlessly many times before. This time it does not want to accept my credentials:
Using Fiddler I can see the call to the server is returning an HTTP 401 Unauthorized as well:
POST /Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync?Cmd=FolderSync&User=*** Email address is removed for privacy ***&DeviceId=4BB0759DD9A74D9EA1B032913059EF50&DeviceType=WindowsOutlook15 HTTP/1.1
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-sync.wbxml
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Outlook/15.0 (15.0.4517.1504; MSI; x86)
MS-ASProtocolVersion: 14.0
X-MS-WL: Outlook/1.0
X-TransactionID: {19971586-D14A-4079-99B8-38CBACB2E72A}
Content-Length: 13
Host: www.outlook.com
Authorization: Basic ---password hash removed---
The password is 100% absolutely correct. I have typed it out in Notepad, copied and pasted into the field to verify that there is no typo. Because the Microsoft account behind this also has two-step authentication enabled I have also tried creating another app password but that also fails with the same error.
To summarize:
- Connected to Outlook.com account on my Windows Phone 8, Windows 8.1 Mail app, but cannot connect using Outlook 2013 on Windows 8.1 (RTM)
- Unauthorized error returned from server
- Same process worked previously while running on Windows 8, Windows 8.1 Preview
- Tried using "www.outlook.com", "m.hotmail.com", "s.outlook.com", and "snt-m.hotmail.com" as server addresses
- Have gone to the service status page and reported problems signing in and syncing email even though it feels sometimes like those reports get routed to /dev/null
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