You can no longer turn off or disable windows defender

[britechguy]

So "defender crashing Outlook", seems like a bit of a stretch.

And nary a peep on the blindness related forums I haunt and, believe me, were anything untoward going on with Outlook that impacted a wide swath of users, the hue and cry would be overwhelming. No clients have called me, either.

 

[Galdorf]

The reason why outlook is not crashing for your customers is prob because they are using it not as often than say a call center if your contact lists and messages as well as calendar are packed this happens.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...-meeting-b3e4dcf4-37cf-42ab-eecd-3ebb508a1525

speaking of bugs this cropped up in some businesses that i service the files go right into the garbage bin lol have to restore them very annoying.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...is-deleting-microsoft-teams-sharepoint-files/

 

[britechguy]

Then, still, saying that Windows Security is "crashing Outlook like mad now" is a gross overstatement.

This is another of those issues, like so many, that is affecting a small number of users among the absolutely massive embedded base. And when you've got untold millions of users, "a small number" of the base can be quite a few people, but still a tiny portion of the user base.

I've often said that most issues, not just this one, are idiosyncratic to a machine or a set of circumstances, not global. That doesn't make them any less traumatic by those affected by them, but it doesn't make it a widespread problem when one takes the existing users as a whole into account.

 

[Stever]

Defender updates are crashing Outlook like mad right now. Good time to be in break/fix lol

Does anyone still use Lookout Distress ?

 

[Sky-Knight]

@Galdorf

I have an even simpler explanation then...

I have zero Outlook 2016's installed, everyone is running Outlook M365, which is Outlook 2019. 2016 and 2019 are very similar right now, but they aren't quite the same.

And yes, huge calandars and such are common.