office 365 and privacy

Susan Wilson 26 Reputation points
2020-08-25T11:04:29.177+00:00

I am a contract worker with my own email address and also an email address for the company i am currently doing contract work for, both come into my outlook under separate inboxes. I am currently using office 2016.

They want me to get office 365 so that I can join their teams etc, which is fine, but before I sign up and download it (using the email address that I am using for their company) I want to check that my own private email address and calendar will still be able to come into outlook but remain private from them. I need to know that private emails from other clients are not going to suddenly be accessible to others, and that appointments in my other calendar aren't viewable to anyone other than me. Can you confirm asap? thanks

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  1. Andy David - MVP 144.2K Reputation points MVP
    2020-08-25T11:08:20.207+00:00

    Hi @Susan Wilson
    No, the emails sent directly to your private email address wont be accessible to the other company. They wont be stored in their tenant, they will only be available in your client.

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  1. DUSKO SAVATOVIC 111 Reputation points
    2020-08-25T11:17:24.937+00:00

    Hi,
    Outlook is capable to work with multiple email accounts.
    e-mail accounts are separate and don't exchange information automatically between them (mail items, calendar items, contacts).
    I provide services for several companies and have e-mail accounts in these companies. At the moment I am working with five email accounts from the same Outlook profile. The messages, calendars and contacts don't mix between Outlook accounts. However, on several occasions, when replying to a message from "Company-A", I accidentally replied from the address of "Company-B". You should be careful and focused to avoid such mishaps.

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  2. Jade Liang-MSFT 9,976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-08-26T07:32:56.923+00:00

    Agree with what DUSKO said above, e-mail accounts are all separate in Outlook client and will not exchange information automatically between them (mail items, calendar items, contacts).

    Besides, if you still worry about that or just don't want to face with the sender error issues, you could also add different emails to different Outlook profile via Control Panel > Mail > Show profile and choose the profile you want to use when needed.

    Hope you would work with Outlook 365 pleasantly.

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