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Secure your Gmail account with 2-Step Verification. This is a bit more work but also quite a bit more secure and highly recommended.įor step-by-step instructions to set this up see: Outlook and 2-Step Verification for Gmail accounts. The way to go is to enable “ 2-Step Verification” for your Google Account. You can no longer turn on Basic Authentication for Gmail. It’s been a long time coming as Google had turned off Basic Authentication by default for all new accounts and accounts which haven’t synced within the last 30 days since the second half of 2014. However, it now states that the setting is no longer available and links to the Less secure apps & your Google Account help page for more info. You used to be able to do this on the Less secure app access page by setting the “Allow less secure apps” setting to “On”. Re-enabling Basic Authentication for your Google Account Settings to configure Gmail in Outlook is no longer possible. It now only lets you authenticate via the OAuth 2.0 standard.Īs a result, you’ll get Send/Receive errors (0x800CCC0E) and could get prompted for your Gmail password again in Outlook and the login could fail even when you supply the correct password. This is because Google has turned off Basic Authentication (which they refer to as Less Secure App Access) for all accounts since May 30, 2022. Note that Outlook 2013 can take several minutes and/or hours (depending on your mailbox size) to synchronize all email, calendar and contact data locally.When configuring your Gmail account in Outlook (or other mail clients such as Thunderbird and Mail apps on (older) smartphones), you may run into continuous password prompts or sync errors. Outlook 2013 will do some additional configuration and you will be brought to your email inbox.The Exchange server will now automatically configure your account ( Note: This could take several minutes).IMPORTANT: You must enter your email address as The Exchange server will send email as however this step is necessary for the initial setup. On the next screen, enter your name, email address and password.On the following screen, titled "Microsoft Outlook Setup", leave the top radio button (labeled Yes) marked and select Next.When presented with the Welcome to Microsoft Outlook 2013 window, select Next.Typically, the program can be found by navigating to Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office 2013.

This article assumes that you have correctly installed Microsoft Office 2013 Profession Plus for Windows and that you do not have an Outlook profile currently setup.
