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The new Outlook tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's ongoing transition from Outlook Classic to the web-based New Outlook for Windows. Recent discussions highlight feature rollouts such as conditional formatting for flags and attachments, reduced notification delays, offline attachment support, and PST import capabilities for both commercial and Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenants. The tag also tracks enterprise migration timelines, including the delayed opt-out phase now set for March 2027, and integrations like Microsoft Planner. Content focuses on roadmap updates, feature availability, and performance comparisons, providing practical insights for IT administrators and users navigating the shift to New Outlook.
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    New Outlook Adds Conditional Formatting for Flags and Attachments

    Microsoft has expanded conditional formatting in the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web, adding message-list rules based on email size, read state, attachments, flag status, categories, and importance. The feature, tracked as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 503551, is now marked Launched...
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    New Outlook Cuts Notification Delay to 5 Seconds, Still Behind Classic

    Microsoft has made New Outlook for Windows noticeably less frustrating when users open an email from a Windows notification, but it still has not closed the performance gap with Outlook Classic. Testing on version 1.2026.713.100 found that the delay between clicking a notification and seeing the...
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    New Outlook Enterprise Opt-Out Starts March 2027 After Delay

    Microsoft’s plan to make New Outlook for Windows the default destination for enterprise users has not gone away; it has merely been pushed back. The company now intends to begin its enterprise opt-out phase in March 2027, after delaying the previous April 2026 target by nearly a year. That gives...
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    New Outlook for Windows Adds Planner as Rollout Restarts

    Microsoft Planner is coming directly to the new Outlook for Windows, giving users a place to manage personal tasks and shared plans beside their email and calendar. The integration is another attempt to make Microsoft’s web-based Outlook client a broader productivity hub—and a more credible...
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    New Outlook Offline Attachments Launch Worldwide, GCC by June 2026

    Microsoft has marked Roadmap ID 496371 as launched, bringing the ability to attach files to draft messages while offline in the new Outlook for Windows. The change closes a conspicuous gap in the app’s offline mode: users could create drafts and queue mail in the Outbox without a connection, but...
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    New Outlook Adds PST Email Import for Government Cloud (GCC)

    Microsoft has marked a GCC roadmap item for importing email from Outlook Data Files into a mailbox in the new Outlook for Windows as launched. Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 485740 lists General Availability in April 2026, limits the item to Government Community Cloud, and says additional PST...
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    New Outlook Adds PST Calendar and Contact Import

    Additional coverage of this story: New Outlook Adds PST Calendar and Contact Import The companion coverage frames the feature for Worldwide Standard Multi-Tenant rather than GCC, lists Roadmap ID 486839 with June 2026 availability, and adds a cautious administrator test-and-validation checklist...
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    New Outlook GCC: PST Calendar and Contact Import Coming July 2026

    Microsoft’s roadmap says GCC users of new Outlook for Windows can import PST calendars and contacts into a mailbox, with General Availability listed for July 2026. It does not yet document the import steps, prerequisites, or duplicate handling. That makes this a rollout-status and pilot guide...
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    New Outlook GCC Gains Read-Only PST Contact Access

    Microsoft has launched read-only access to contacts stored inside Outlook Data Files, or .pst files, in the new Outlook for Windows for Government Community Cloud users, with general availability dated September 2025 under Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 485756 and the status now marked Launched. The...
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    New Outlook for Windows: August Reply Warnings, September Templates

    Microsoft is adding three inbox-management features to the new Outlook app for Windows 10 and Windows 11 this fall: an August rollout for stale-thread reply warnings, and September rollouts for automatic-reply templates and drag-and-drop category assignment through Favorites for mail. The...
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    New Outlook for Windows Gets LDAP S/MIME Certificate Lookup (GA May 2026)

    Microsoft has launched LDAP directory support for S/MIME in the new Outlook for Windows, with general availability listed for May 2026 across desktop clients in Worldwide Standard Multi-Tenant and GCC clouds, according to Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 518287 updated on July 6, 2026. The change...
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    Outlook July 2026 Update Adds Control Over Email Preview Lines (2, 1, or None)

    Microsoft is rolling out a July 2026 Outlook update that lets Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web users choose whether email preview text in the message list takes two lines, one full line, or no additional lines. That sounds like a small view-setting tweak because it is one. But in the...
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    New Outlook .PST Support Grows—But Classic Outlook Still Required for Archives

    Microsoft said on July 1, 2026, that New Outlook for Windows has gained broader .PST support, including improved search and import behavior, while still requiring Classic Outlook to be installed in the background for local data-file access. That is the kind of sentence Microsoft wants to sound...
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    New Outlook Email Notification Grouping Fixes Spam—But Click Lag Still Matters

    Microsoft confirmed on June 9, 2026, that new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web will group email notifications that arrive within seconds, with rollout beginning in late June and broader availability expected by mid-September. That is a sensible fix to a real annoyance, but it also...
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    New Outlook for Windows June 2026 Roadmap: Mail Merge, All-Accounts Inbox & Admin Risk

    Microsoft’s June 2026 roadmap push for the new Outlook for Windows adds mail merge improvements, an all-accounts inbox, folder-count controls, Office file sharing, and notification work, but the changes arrive while Outlook Classic remains the more dependable client for many Windows 11 users...
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    Pilot Outlook Mail Merge (Advanced) in June 2026—Keep Word Merge for Critical Work

    Admins should pilot Outlook Mail Merge (Advanced) in June 2026 for low-risk internal or departmental communications, but they should not replace Word-based mail merge and classic Outlook workflows until Microsoft proves the new Outlook and web implementation can handle real production edge...
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    New Outlook for Windows: Unified All Accounts Inbox in Aug 2026 + Mail Merge

    Microsoft has confirmed that the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web are slated to gain a unified All Accounts inbox in August 2026, alongside advanced mail merge, broader .PST import support, favorite-folder improvements, conditional formatting, and calendar-selection refinements...
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    New Outlook for Windows: Pin, Snooze, and the Trust Gap for Classic Users

    Microsoft is using a fresh list of more than 15 productivity features in the new Outlook for Windows, highlighted in early June 2026, to persuade classic Outlook users that the web-based replacement is finally ready for daily use. The pitch is not subtle: pinning, snoozing, Sweep, scheduled...
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    New Outlook for Windows: 15 Improvements, but Users Still Don’t Trust the Switch

    Microsoft has highlighted 15 recent improvements to the new Outlook for Windows as it continues moving users away from Windows Mail and Calendar, but the reaction from many Windows users in June 2026 remains blunt: feature additions are welcome, yet trust has not caught up. That gap is now the...
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    Microsoft Delays Enterprise Opt Out for New Outlook to March 2027

    Microsoft has pushed the enterprise “opt‑out” start for the New Outlook for Windows out by roughly one year — moving the phase Microsoft had targeted for April 2026 to March 1, 2027 — a change the company says gives organizations twelve months of lead time while it finishes key features and...