Office 2016 For Mac Turn Off Focused Mailbox

| 15-09-2021
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Oct 04, 2016 As you might be aware Microsoft is introducing a new feature in Office 365 called Focused mailbox. The new feature is effectively replacing the clutter inbox that we have become familiar with, but also adds new features such as the ability to highlight people in the body of an email with the use of the @ symbol in front of the person. Focused Inbox is now available to all Office 365 customers using the Monthly Channel of Office 365 ProPlus, in Office 2019 for Windows and Mac, and in Outlook for iOS and Android. Focused Inbox helps you focus on the emails that matter most to you. It separates your inbox into two tabs—Focused.

The article describes the ‘Clutter’ feature of Office 365. Some ways to disable this feature in Office 365 are also described.

Office 2016 For Mac Turn Off Focused Mailbox

The Significance of the Clutter Feature in Office 365

First of all, ‘clutter’ means a set of dirty things collected at a place. This mailbox management feature was introduced to move the low-priority messages from Inbox to the “Clutter” folder (in the user mailbox) to reduce the Inbox clutter.

Because some users rely on rules for managing the mails, this Clutter feature is unnecessary for them. So, they can consider disabling this feature.

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Here we are discussing two ways for disabling the Clutter feature, one for administrators and the other for end users.

How Can Office 365 Administrators Disable Clutter?
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Open Windows PowerShell on your system. Connect to Office 365 using these steps:

  1. Run this command first.
  2. It will ask for the Office 365 login credentials. Enter your Office 365 username, password and then click OK.
  3. Now, run these two commands one after another.
    $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

    Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking

  4. Office 365 account is successfully connected through PowerShell. Execute this command to disable the Clutter feature for Office 365 mailboxes.
    For Single Mailbox –

    For Multiple Mailboxes –

    $users = “user name 1″,”user name 2”
    ForEach ($user in $users) {
    Set-Clutter -Identity $user -Enable $false
    }

    For All Office 365 User Mailboxes –

    Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Set-Clutter -Enable $false

    Note: You can enable the clutter feature for your Office 365 mailboxes, by just passing the true value to -Enable parameter as shown:
    Set-Clutter -Identity “user name” -Enable $true

How Can Office 365 End Users Disable Clutter?

Office 365 end users can also easily disable/enable the clutter feature in their mailboxes. Open your mailbox and follow these steps:

Office 2016 For Mac Turn Off Focused Mailboxes

  1. Go to the gear-shaped Settings option and search for the ‘clutter’ word. Click on the Clutter option.
  2. Now, clear the checkbox “Separate items identified as clutter” and click on Save to save the settings.

This will disable the clutter feature in your Office 365 mailbox.

Conclusion

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Two ways to disable the Clutter feature is discussed here. Exchange administrators can use the PowerShell method, whereas Office 365 end users can use the second method.