Recurring email "Reconnect to Google"

Anonymous
2014-06-26T12:30:29+00:00

I am receiving continuos emails from microsoft saying that lost connection to google account, everytime I reconnect after about 10 min microsoft lost connection again and I receive another email.

Is the problem some config in google account or changes in google services?

Is the problem some config in  microsoft account security? 

Note: When reconnecting, the permission asked by google is only offline access.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-14T19:11:14+00:00

    I think it's hilarious this was never fixed. I've just come to accept it...

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-06T10:30:40+00:00

    I get this message since signing out of my Microsoft Account and not signing back in, I think.

    Everything seems to be working OK otherwise so why do I need to connect via the Microsoft account? My emailing seems OK, including gmail.

    I haven't the faintest idea of who these 'friends from all services' are.

    What am I missing?

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-01T15:46:16+00:00

    Why am I having to link google to my microsoft account. The last time I did that google took over and I coudn't use my regular email for a google group. It automatically got converted over to the gmail address I was trying to change to my outlook.com mail.

    Thanks,

    Reconnect to Google

    Microsoft account (******@windowslivemail.com)

    Add to contacts

    8/31/15

    Social updates

    To: ******@outlook.com

    ![](https://a.gfx.ms/ic/bluemanmxl.png)

    Reconnect to Google

    You connected Google to your Microsoft account so that you could stay in better touch with

    friends from both services. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to connect to your Google account lately.

    Reconnecting is easy

    Luckily, you can get things working again just by checking your Google connection settings and clicking Connect Google. Sign in to Google from there, and you're done!

    Reconnect now

    What happened?

    You might have changed your password on Google or changed your Google privacy settings in a way that broke the connection. When you reconnect to Google, your connection settings will be restored.

    Thanks for using your Microsoft account to bring the people who matter most together in one place. You can change your connection settings anytime and find more ways to connect at https://profile.live.com/services.

    See you online,

    The Microsoft team

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-31T10:29:59+00:00

    This helped me but I was unable to find the link on my account page. I could not fix this problem until you provided the link. Maybe it is only accessible for english users?

    You need to make this page (https://profile.live.com/) more easy to access. 

    When I am using the swedish page (https://account.microsoft.com/) it is impossible to find.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-07-16T18:18:20+00:00

    It's not a scam. Rather than click on the link in the email (to be safe), you can go to the People hub in Outlook.com and you'll see the connection to Google is broken.

    How/why it gets broken is still a mystery to me. I know it'll tend to get triggered (sometimes) when I open a Windows app (Mail, Calendar) that I haven't opened in a while but sometimes it'll come randomly. There's not much rhyme/reason. It's annoying but I really don't get much value connecting to Google from Outlook.com so eventually I'll probably just remove the connection altogether.

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