Recurring email "Reconnect to Google"

I am having this same issue. Three times in the past week...

Hi Everyone,

Please accept our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this matter has caused you. We completely understand that you keep getting emails that says "Reconnect to Google". We would like to conduct an in depth investigation regarding this issue and we'd like to gather more information from you which will help us speed up the process of our investigation.

Kindly provide the following details in the private message area that I have created for you:

• Your affected Microsoft account and Gmail account
• Troubleshooting steps that you have tried.
• Steps that you have done when you configure your Gmail account to Outlook.com or when you link your Google contacts to your People page.
• Screenshot of Your email accounts *(Options > Under Managing your account > Your email accounts)*which shows that your Gmail account is connected to Outlook.com (If you add your Gmail account to Outlook.com) or screenshot of Accounts that you can access (Go to account.live.com > Related accounts > Manage other accounts) which shows that your Google contacts are connected (if you added your Google contacts to your People page)

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We will be waiting for your response so we can proceed with our investigation.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

Hi Everyone,

Let me help you regarding the email you're receiving on your account.

Please be informed that Google has made a change to their security defaults and disable the use of Basic Authentication by Google accounts. This will break Gmail connections to Outlook.com. To know more, you can read the article below:

Outlook cannot connect to Gmail after July 15, 2014

We recommends enabling basic authentication for your Google account. In addition, we also suggest to use Google's Two-step verification featured combined with an App password for Outlook.com This will option will increase your overall account security. Pleas check the articles below:

About 2-Step Verification

Sign in using App Passwords

While you're at it, using Two-step verification for your Microsoft Account is a good idea too, to do this, please follow the steps on the article below:

Two-step verification: FAQ

If the issue still persists, don't hesitate to inform us and we'll be happy to further assist you.

Thank you.

For those of us who HAVE enabled 2-step verification, and therefore are not allowed to "enable less secure apps," could you tell us how we can plug in an app specific password to the Outlook.com gmail chat integration? I can't get a prompt for that and the linked support article doesn't apply to Outlook.com

2-Step Verification was and still is disabled and I had this issue too.