Error "You're currently signed in with an Office 365 email account, which can't be used with Outlook.com".

Anonymous
2013-02-05T17:53:03+00:00

I cannot sign into my Outlook.com account. I get error message "You're currently signed in with an Office 365 email account, which can't be used with Outlook.com. Please clickhere to sign out of your Office 365 account, then use another Microsoft account to sign in to Outlook.com (for example, your hotmail.com, live.com, or msn.com account)".

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2013-02-05T17:56:07+00:00

Update as of April 2, 2013:

We have locked this thread since it became too long to manage. We created another thread,****Error "You're currently signed in with an Office 365 email account, which can't be used with Outlook.com" for users who are still having the same issue and willing to provide details and information that will help our investigation.

You are receiving the error: “You're currently signed in with an Office 365 email account, which can't be used with Outlook.com” because of the following reasons:

  1. Your Microsoft account was registered or still registered in Office 365.
  2. Your Microsoft account ends with .edudomain extension name and is being managed by your University domain administrator.

Please follow the instructions below to prevent receiving the error message when accessing your account.

If your Microsoft account was registered or still registered in Office 365:

  1. Make sure that you're signed out from any Microsoft services.
  2. Optimize your browser by clearing its cache and cookies. You may follow the instructions in this **link** on how to do it.
  3. Then, sign into your account through this link: http://mail.office365.com/ . You should not encounter the error message again.

If your Microsoft account ends with .edu domain extension name and is being managed by your University domain administrator:

  1. Make sure that you're signed out from any Microsoft services.
  2. Optimize your browser by clearing its cache and cookies. You may follow the instructions in this **link** on how to do it.
  3. Sign in to your account through http://www.outlook.com/[yourdomainextensionname] Example: Your email address is ******@sample.edu. You should sign in through http://www.outlook.com/sample.edu
  4. Please try to contact your University domain administrator and check for possible issues.

If the steps above did not fix the issue please provide us the following information:

  • Steps that you followed when you got the message, and your experience
  • Fiddler Trace Logs. You can refer to this link for steps on how to capture a fiddler trace logs.

Once you have these information ready you can post this response, "I'm willing to provide all the information needed to investigate this issue." Once we receive this response, we will be providing you a private message area where you can enter all the information and upload the fiddler trace logs.

To Capture a Fiddler Trace, please follow the steps below:

Please ensure that encryption is turned off while running the fiddler trace. If you don’t turn off the encryption, the fiddler traces cannot be used by our team for investigation.

  1. To install FiddlerCap, visit http://www.fiddlercap.com/dl/FiddlerCapSetup.exe (http://www.fiddlercap.com/dl/fiddlercapsetup.exe)  Save the file to your desktop.
  2. When the download is completed, double-click “FiddlerCapSetup.exe” on the desktop.
  3. Read the License Agreement, and then click I Agree.
  4. Click Install.
  5. When the installation is complete, click Close.  Note: FiddlerCap starts automatically.
  6. In the "Capture Options" section, enable "Decrypt HTTPS traffic".  Click OK to accept. If you see any security warnings about certificates, click “Yes” to allow the Fiddler certificate. If you see any messages from your firewall, click the option to allow access.
  7. Click 1. Start Capture.
  8. In the new browser window that opens, browse to www.hotmail.com or www.outlook.com . In this same window, reproduce the issue that you have encountered (for example, reopening a message that generated an error).
  9. After you reproduce the issue, return to the FiddlerCap window, and then click 2. Stop Capture.
  10. Click 3. Save Capture.
  11. On the Save as type menu at the bottom of this window, click Zip file (*.zip).
  12. Click Save to save the capture file to your desktop. When exiting the capture tool, if you see a “Root Certificate Store” popup, click “Yes” to confirm deletion of the Fiddler certificate.
  13. If you have an open ticket in Mail Customer Support, reply to the message that you received from Mail Customer Support. Attach the FiddlerCap .zip file

Additional info for capturing logs from Firefox: http://www.fiddlercap.com/fiddlercap/firefox.asp

-Microsoft Outlook.com Support Team

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-03-17T16:45:49+00:00

    I am having the same issue as everyone else.... my email is ******@my.cleveland.edu but I cannot log in either as it pops up with the same display error message. Please help ASAP as I have numerous emails I need to attend to.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-03-17T01:54:31+00:00

    Lanie_P

    Can you please add me to the private area? I am having the same issues.

    Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-03-16T15:14:43+00:00

    I found a solution, but you are not going to like it.

    It seems the whole Microsoft Live logon system is gated/filtered by ANY domain entry in ANY Office 365 account.

    Remove the domain from the Office 365 account (you will have to remove all email aliases, logoff from all computers/web browsers and wait a few hours else it will refuse to remove the domain) then you will be allowed access to the live account logon and Outlook.com.

    The BIG restriction is then, you can't just go and add a domain to your Office 365 account for the purpose of email forwarding or aliases for "send as" functionality. Doing so will filter your entire domain and any other users of that domain, even if they have no mailbox or address in Office 365!!!

    I found this out because I also added a family domain name to my business Office 365 account and was only using it for send as for myself, but noticed when my wife tried to logon (who previously used Hotmail and was upgraded to Outlook.com) could no longer logon at the live.com or outlook.com, only at direct non-mail Live service URLs like skydrive.live.com.

    Well I've have had enough of that, wasted a lot of time on it and am very disappointed. I noticed that my cheap Go Daddy hosting account comes with unlimited email forwarding, so I'm slowly moving my email domains away and will get the forward and email send as functionality from Go Daddy and free email storage (just set your ISP to forward to an outlook.com alias) from Outlook.com, or another free provider if that service goes downhill too (still waiting months for that "sent on behalf of" fix).

    Actually I would pay for a mailbox or two when it gets better (I did like Office 365). But the current state of play is anyone with an Office 365 account will suffer restricted services across the new Windows 8 / Outlook.com / Office.com ecosystem.

    Come on, get in gear, Outlook.com LOOKS great but you've crippled yourselves and are turning away precious users in droves because of a couple of silly configuration and logon issues.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-03-16T14:34:41+00:00

    I'm willing to provide all the information needed to investigate this issue.

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