Troubleshooting Office 365 email channels

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Overview

From time to time it is possible you may experience alerts or sending errors related to your Office 365 email channels. Here we explore some of the most common issues and provide some information on how to address them.


Common issues

Error: The Office 365 account does not have permissions to access this mailbox

You may see this error message appear both as a pop-up and as a banner applied to a message you are attempting to send.

What happened?

When attempting to send this message via Office 365, Office 365 responded with an error message due to permissions set for that email address.

How do I resolve this?

Reauthorize the channel with an Office 365 user with the correct permissions.

Error: Sending on behalf of that Office 365 shared mailbox is denied. Please verify your Office 365 rights

You may see this error message appear both as a pop-up and as a banner applied to a message you are attempting to send.

What happened?

When attempting to send this message via Office 365, Office 365 responded with an error message due to permissions set for that email address.

How do I resolve this?

This is effectively caused by the Office 365 user who authenticated this email channel not having the correct permissions set in Office 365 to send on behalf of that user.

You can take a look at Microsoft's explanation of why you are seeing this error, and what you can do to resolve this error here in this Microsoft article: An error may occur when sending On Behalf of or Sending As another user when using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router with Office 365 Exchange Online

Error: The Office 365 account has exceeded its storage quota

You may see this error message appear both as a pop-up and as a banner applied to a message you are attempting to send.

What happened?

Your team is receiving these storage notifications because the mailbox storage quota for this address has been exceeded within Office 365. You won’t be able to send or receive messages until more storage space is cleared up.

We do not implement storage quotas at Front, but because your Front account lays on top of Office 365 as a mail provider, this is impacting your ability to send and receive emails in Front as well.

How do I resolve this?

Delete or archive emails within the Office 365 mailbox, or ask your IT admins to increase the storage size for this account.

For more information, see Microsoft’s documentation on storage limits.