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Office 365, Email, Exchange, Outlook, How To Delete and Re-Add An Email Account in Outlook

How to remove and re-add an account from Outlook for troubleshooting purposes.

Please note that this will completely remove the selected email account from Outlook and delete the cached local copy of your mailbox, but items on the server will not be affected. These steps should only be taken after less drastic steps in troubleshooting an Outlook issue have failed.

Windows

Removing your account:

Please see the following instructions from Microsoft.

Re-adding your account:

Mac

Removing your account:

Please see the following instructions from Microsoft.

Re-adding your account:

For instructions, please see [Link for document 74507 is unavailable at this time].

Mobile Devices (iPhone, iPad, Android)


Keywords:
Delete re-add Outlook 365 data file Profile Outlook Data Files, You cannot delete until you create a new data file 
Doc ID:
48044
Owned by:
Office 365 G. in University of Illinois Technology Services
Created:
2015-03-03
Updated:
2025-01-10
Sites:
University of Illinois Technology Services