Microsoft Outlook Mac Keeps Asking For My Password
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  1. Microsoft Outlook Mac Keeps Asking For My Password Windows 7
  2. Outlook 2010 Keeps Asking For Password Prompt
  3. Outlook Asking For Microsoft Account

Symptoms

In Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac, you are repeatedly prompted for authentication while you're connected to your Office 365 account. This issue occurs because of the presence of duplicate tokens in the keychain. To resolve this issue in Outlook 2016 for Mac, install the February 2017 Outlook update (version 15.31.0) from the.

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When you try to create an Outlook profile or connect to a Microsoft Office 365 mailbox, you're continually prompted for credentials while the client displays a 'trying to connect..' message. If you cancel the credentials prompt, you receive the following error message:

The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.

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Cause

This issue can occur if the Logon network security settingon the Security tab of the Microsoft Exchange dialog box is set to a value other than Anonymous Authentication.

Resolution

Note

Microsoft Outlook 2016 and some recent builds of Outlook 2013 are not affected by this issue. Those versions have been updated to prevent the problem that is described in the 'Symptoms' section. These versions have the Logon network security setting disabled or removed from the Microsoft Exchange email account settings.

For newer versions of Outlook

You may be an Office 365 customer who is experiencing the error that is described in the 'Symptoms' section when you try to connect to an Exchange Online mailbox. You may also already be running newer versions of Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016. If both conditions are true, we highly recommend that you use the Outlook keeps asking for my password diagnostic to troubleshoot issues in which Outlook continually prompts for a password.

This diagnostic does automated checks and returns possible solutions for you to use to try to fix any detected issues.

If you are connecting to an Exchange On-Premises mailbox, see the following articles for additional troubleshooting:

Additionally, you can view the following forum thread for common causes:

For affected versions of Outlook

If you have an older version of Outlook, change the Logon network security setting to Anonymous Authentication to fix this issue. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Exit Outlook.

  2. Open Control Panel, and then do one of the following:

    • In Windows 10, Windows 8.1, or Windows 7, click Start, type control panel in the search box, and then press Enter.
    • In Windows 8, swipe in from the right side to open the charms, tap or click Search, and then type control panel in the search box. Or, type control panel at the Start screen, and then tap or click Control Panel in the search results.
  3. In Control Panel, locate and double-click Mail.

  4. Click Show Profiles, select your Outlook profile, and then click Properties.

  5. Click E-mail Accounts.

  6. Select your email account, and then click Change.

  7. Install microsoft office free mac 2017. In the Change Account dialog box, click More Settings.

  8. In the Microsoft Exchange dialog box, select the Security tab.

  9. On the Login network security list, select Anonymous Authentication, and then click OK.

  10. Click Next, click Finish, and then click Close on the Account Settings dialog box.

  11. Click Close on the Mail Setup dialog box, and then click OK to close the Mail control panel.

Asking

More Information

To locate and view the registry setting for Anonymous Authentication in the Outlook profile, follow these steps.

Important

Modifying the Outlook profile by using the 'Profiles' registry path is not supported and may cause your Outlook profile to be in an unsupported state.

Microsoft Outlook Mac Keeps Asking For My Password Windows 7

Important

Follow the steps in this section carefully. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Before you access it, back up the registry for restoration in case problems occur.

  1. Open Registry Editor. To do this, do one of the following:

    • In Windows 10, Windows 8.1, or Windows 8, press the Windows logo key+R to open the Run dialog box, type regedit.exe, and then click OK.
    • In Windows 7, click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press Enter. If you're prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.
  2. Locate the following registry path, as appropriate for your version of Outlook:

    • For Outlook 2013

      HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0OutlookProfiles

    • For Outlook 2010 and 2007

      HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWindows Messaging SubsystemProfiles

  3. Under this subkey, locate and expand the name of your Outlook profile.

  4. Under the profile, locate and expand the 9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676 key.

  5. Under the 9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676 key, you see a subkey for each account in your profile. Select the first subfolder (00000001), and then examine the data of the Account Name binary value by double-clicking the value. Repeat this process until you find the Account Name value that includes your SMTP address. For example, the Account Name value points to **guidopica@contoso.com** under the 00000003 subkey.

  6. Under the 0000000x subkey, locate the Service UID binary value. It represent a GUID (for example, c3 d1 9a 7b 80 1b c4 4a 96 0a e5 b6 3b f9 7c 7e).

  7. Locate the subfolder in your profile that matches the GUID value that's identified in step 6 (for example, c3d19a7b801bc44a960ae5b63bf97c7e).

  8. Under the subkey that you found in step 7, examine the 01023d0d binary value. It represents a GUID (for example, 5f cf d5 f1 ba 5c 6f 45 b3 57 cc 5e 0d 16 94 58).

  9. Locate the subfolder in your profile that matches the GUID value that's identified in step 8 (for example, 5fcfd5f1ba5c6f45b357cc5e0d169458).

  10. Under the subkey that's found in step 9, examine the value of the 00036619 binary value. This value determines whether Outlook is using Anonymous Authentication.

    Binary: 00036619

    Data: 01 f0 00 80Anonymous Authentication

    Any other value represents an authentication method other than Anonymous.

After you or your Mac administrator resets the password of your macOS user account, your Mac might ask you to update your keychain password or enter the password of your login keychain. It might also tell you that the system was unable to unlock your login keychain. That's because your login keychain is still using your old password.

If you don't know your old password

Outlook 2010 Keeps Asking For Password Prompt

If you don't know your old password, the solution is to create a new login keychain.

If you know your old password

If you know your old password, use that password to update your existing login keychain:

Outlook Asking For Microsoft Account

  1. Open the Keychain Access app, which is in the the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
  2. From the list of keychains on the left side of the window, select 'login.'
  3. From the Edit menu in the menu bar, choose “Change Password for Keychain 'login.'”
  4. Enter the old password of your user account in the Current Password field. This is the password you were using before the password was reset.
  5. Enter the new password of your user account in the New Password field. This is the password you're now using to log in to your Mac. Enter the same password in the Verify field.
  6. Click OK when done, then quit Keychain Access.