M365 Changelog: (Updated) New Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Receive reminders when offline – Jan 6, 2025

MC834186 – Updated January 5, 2025: Microsoft updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon for new Microsoft Outlook for Windows: While offline, users will continue to receive reminders without interruption and can snooze and dismiss reminders.

When this will happen:

General Availability: Microsoft will begin rolling out early March 2025 (previously early November) and expects to complete by late April 2025 (previously early December).

How this will affect your organization:

Before this rollout: Users were not always able to receive reminders from new Outlook for Windows when offline.

After this rollout, to enable this feature, users will need to make sure Reminders are enabled in Settings:

1. Outlook for Windows > Settings (gear icon in top right of screen) > General > Notifications.
2. Expand the Calendar section and select Reminder as the notification style.

Users can also manually display Reminders from View > Reminders in Mail and Calendar views.

Users can access Reminders on the Outlook’s View tab:

This feature is on by default and available to all new Outlook for Windows users.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Learn more: Add or delete notifications or reminders in Outlook – Microsoft Support

Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.