"The properties of the message have been changed" prompt when forwarding/replying in Outlook

Anonymous
2021-05-21T21:28:23+00:00

When users open a message in its own window that has a pdf attachment and replies or forwards the message; when they close the original window, outlook prompts "The properties of the message <email_subject> have been changed. Want to save your changes to this message?"

Steps to recreate this issue:

  • Message must have pdf or txt attachment
  • Open the original message in its own window
  • Reply-to or forward the message
  • Closing original message that was previously opened in its own window

Attempts to disable add-ins or running outlook in safe-mode do not resolve this issue.

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Anonymous
2021-06-16T08:16:59+00:00

Hi All，

First, apologize for the inconvenience caused by this problem in Outlook Client. Microsoft has realized this issue and the dedicated outlook teams are working on this problem to fix it. It is a known issue in the current Outlook Clients, and a fix will be released to Office version 2106 on 2021/6/17. For the affected users please navigate to Outlook Web App as temporary workaround and wait for the new fix release with some more patience, thanks. For more details, please refer to "The properties of the message have been changed" prompt when forwarding/replying in Outlook.

Thanks for your understanding and patience.

Best Regards,

Oliver

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-10T15:17:09+00:00

    Thanks @Nick_AP, @P. van Voorst (ICTC) for sharing the earlier builds too. I will go back and see if I can find exactly when the change went it that causes the issue.

    The fix has been checked in but I don't have the fixed version yet. I'll post back as soon as I know that. The fix will only be for Current Channel Version 2105. So far it is not being ported to versions earlier than that.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-27T19:32:42+00:00

    Hey Ankita,

    If it helps, we're hosted on Exchange 2016. From looking at other comments, it seems this may be isolated to Exchange servers.

    Thank you & God bless

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-27T12:29:41+00:00

    We are also suffering from the same issues, the issue is growing with more Outlook clients being effected. Have also had a ticket logged with MS but are unable to find the root cause. Sounds like a bug in Outlook.

    Seeing this error on version 2104 of Outlook and higher.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-22T03:00:08+00:00

    Hello Sir,

    Thanks for your post in Microsoft community.

    We appreciate you for providing breif steps and version details regarding your issue and thank you for good wishes.

    To assist you in this case, would like to confirm when this issue start to occurs?

    Besides this, do you have installed any antivirus software on your system? If so, request you to please kindly try to disabling the integration of the antivirus software in Outlook (or simply disable Antivirus software) and then check if it makes any difference.

    Verify Outlook replies, forward and save message settings by follow the below steps.

    • Try going into Outlook > File tab > Options and select Mail.
    • In the Replies and forwards area, verify that when replying and forwarding a message is selected with Include original message text.
    • In the Save message area, verify that use “Unicode format” is checked. Also make sure that "when replying to a message that is not in the inbox, save the reply in the same folder" is unchecked.
    • Screenshot for your reference:

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    Try to Quick repair your Office by  Control Panel > Go to Programs\Programs and Features > Select Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise  > right click and select change > Click on Quick repair. (Before doing such repair activity, we suggest you to kindly take back up of your entire mailbox data)

    If still issue occurs, we need to narrow down it, so for further checking, request you to please kindly provide your entire Office account page screenshot (with remove your email id) to check your entire Office product details.

    Your co-operation will be highly appreciated and thank you so much for your precious time.

    Stay safe and healthy.

    Regards,

    Ankita Vaidya

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