Restart Office to apply changes to your privacy settings - endless notices

Same problem here, with the Office 365 subscription I get from work. Disabling "Optional Connected Experiences" (OCE) never works: I disable it, re-start Office (or the entire MacOS), go back into Office and I get the warning that I need to restart Office and the OCE is there again ticked.

My best guess is that my admins - whether willingly or not - have set Office so that I must use the OCE, and Office mistakenly offers me the option to disable it, and then fails, and then goes in some kind of loop.

Hi,

I have had issues with connecting in the past - don't specifically remember when but I think it was within the last 12 months. Here are a list of things that you could consider trying:

I repaired my O365 installation

I removed the Gmail accounts from Outlook and then added them back

I uninstalled O365 and re-installed it on Windows 10 this process maintained all my settings - I didn't have add all my email accounts back - I currently have more than 10

Update: More Bad News

As of mid-2019? (best I can tell from other forums), if you are using a gmail, icloud or another email server other than MS, your connection (ability to use) to the other-than-MS server will fail, unless you have "Connected experiences" checked in your Office Privacy Settings....

Hi,

I have two Gmail accounts, currently connected simultaneously, and they connect to the Google servers without any obvious issue. The yellow flag has currently disappeared for the time being , but the connection to the Google servers was not an issue when the restart/privacy warning messages were active. The Connected Experiences setting needs to be switched on in order to synch your privacy settings with other devices - that's completely bonkers and you should not be forced to endure the other intrusive settings to achieve this. 

My experience was that the initial connection to the Google server was successful, but after a few days I was getting prompted for a Google password on both my Google accounts. Initially, I just spilt them out using Outlook sync groups, and set the Google group to sync manually.  

Then, I took my Windows notebook and brought it all back up-to-date, adding the Google mail accounts, and watched the process (started prompting for Google email password) repeat over the course of 3-4 days. When I saw this was consistently happening I decided to remove the Google accounts. 

Just to be clear, I did use passwords generated by my Google accounts, using the Google Account > Security > App passwords.

If someone knows a way around this please let us know.

Update: More Bad News

As of mid-2019? (best I can tell from other forums), if you are using a gmail, icloud or another email server other than MS, your connection (ability to use) to the other-than-MS server will fail, unless you have "Connected experiences" checked in your Office Privacy Settings.

I know I sorta made it sound like I was letting MS of the hook in earlier posts, but then I was willing to continue to use Outlook without any "extras."  Well, this draws a line in the sand!  Funny it took all these years for MS to force Gmail off of the MS platform.  "Hey MS, who was sleeping on the job?"

So, what to do? 

Gmail: I'm only using 2 Gmail addresses, but one is my eBay account, and the other manages non-business-related accounts.  I could just manage eBay from my iPhone Gmail and eBay apps.  I'm surely not going to manage Gmail from a desktop browser.  In reality, almost every email notice coming from eBay is duplicated within eBay, so the Gmail account for eBay is just a notification platform.  Solved.  I don't need Gmail in Outlook.

iCloud: Ditto

MS wins this round! (bunch of jerks...)  But, I'm still not checking that "Connected experiences" box.

I spoke too soon.... :(

The "prompt" is popping up when I sign on, while I'm scrolling mail (from any email accountnot just gmail), and while I'm reading emails from a yahoo groups account or an AOL account. It's as though it's timed to pop up every 30 seconds no matter what I'm doing in Outlookwriting or reading emails.

I did figure out how to get rid of OneDrive Personal, but it say that if I do that, I can't access emoji's while composing mail in Outlook, access pictures from the Web while in Word or Outlook, and basically have no access to any internet features in any Office 365 programs. So, I'm either stuck with useless programs that are bare bones, or I give up all privacy. And, either way, I STILL keep getting the pop-up prompt for my Google email and password every 30 seconds.