Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
Update for everyone regarding our setup in case someone is running into something similar...
Past Setup
- Windows Server 2019 Standard
- 4x RDSHs
- FSLogix 2.9.8612.60056
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (x86) 16.0.16026.20200
- 30 test users (other 80 are on old 2012 R2 RDS cluster until this is fixed)
This setup was a functional 1001 workaround for us for a week or so, but suddenly started locking people out of Outlook with an authentication loop. Signing out of Word then back in wouldn't fix. Moving to another RDSH didn't fix. We had to move people to OWA for a bit until we made some changes. My best guess why this behavior started was that Microsoft was changing things on the backend to try and fix the issue, but older versions of Office (March 2023) builds didn't like these changes. I'm guessing this because we started having these authentication issues around the same time others on this forum started posting about the issue going away on its own and having made no changes. Any other older Office users see the same thing?
Current Setup
- Windows Server 2019 Standard
- 4x RDSHs
- FSLogix 2.9.8612.60056
- (NEW) Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (x86) 16.0.16827.20166
- (NEW) Implemented all Microsoft recommended "fixes" from quoted post
After upgrading Office, running Windows updates (nothing significant), and implementing all of Microsoft's recommended workarounds, things are better but not perfect. 1001 and WAM errors have been gone for 3 days now, but some, not all, users are prompted to sign into Office every time they open a fresh RDSH session. Ironically this was the original issue that started my troubleshooting of 1001 errors; however, I'm so fed up and burnt out on babysitting this RDS environment that a daily login for users is a vast improvement for me. I can't care anymore if Microsoft isn't going to care...
My current plan is to give this "fix" more time to settle and update everyone once we have 1-2 weeks of no authentication issues (other than being prompted each login). After X time, we will revisit the daily re-authentication issue; in the meantime, hopefully we can coast until Microsoft puts out a fix.