All the tools are there, it's up to Google to complete the experience because it's their service that's required to do the integration. They've given a modern authentication system that works with most modern authentication platforms including Google too. Microsoft has provided an API in the Outlook application that Google could use to make a plugin to make all this seamless. Just as a core principle of Microsoft is single sign on. I disagree with this fundamentally, and it's a core principle of Google as a company.
They think everything should be 100% done in a browser at all times. Google doesn't believe in desktop applications AT ALL. I blame Google for all of this, and it's part of their mission statement. Microsoft has no interest in making Outlook play nice with Google services, it's up to Google to make the plugins for Outlook to do that.ĮmClient is a good example of a 3rd party trying to play nicely enough with both to get noticed, and they're doing such in an attempt to get sales in an ecosystem that otherwise wouldn't give them the time of day. So yeah, you wind up needing plugins in Outlook that can reach into the Google API to get at the other bits of data, and without those plugins which are often sold by various 3rd parties you're stuck doing things manually. But the larger issue is the fact that the email side even if using modern auth is IMAP, and IMAP is a messaging protocol it simply doesn't deal with all the extra stuff. This is after I hit the +2 more link on the main security settings pane, as it only presents the first three there with that Microsoft has their own way of handling all that stuff that predates Google as a company, much less gmail. Whether it's the Windows 10 Mail App, or Outlook, the entry for Microsoft apps & services is the one relevant to their access. If it does not, and you complete the process, I'll almost bet my bottom dollar that there is cache corruption in the browser you had tried to use previously, and the solution to that is doing a complete purge of browser cache for that browser.Īlso, since it sounds like you're using one of the more recent versions of Outlook, unless there is some reason to have less secure apps enabled otherwise, disable it.Īddendum: Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here's a screenshot for my Google Account where I'm using several different email clients for testing. A "cheater's version" of this is to temporarily change your default web browser under Windows Settings, and see if the same "stall" happens when the OAUTH dialog appears under that web browser. In instances like this, where there is weird behavior in a web browser (and, yes, that Google dialog is a browser dialog), I strongly suggest clearing browser cache, for all time, as an initial step.
It wasn't clear to me what the sticking point was with that pop-up OAUTH dialog.
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