Can I open Access database files in Outlook? #M365AMA
In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:
“I have this customer that occasionally receives emails of an access database .accdb file. Outlook doesn’t seem to play nice with that file type, for reasons I totally understand. But my question is if there is a way to receive that file type by email in outlook web app? This client is using m365 defender for o365 and I didn’t see any policies within threat management that would help me any. Obviously, I know there are other ways to share this file outside of email, but not looking for that at this moment.”
Check out the discussion here:
Participating in this discussion were:
- Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet
- Neil Hodgkinson @nellymo
- Sean McDonough @spmcdonough
- Shari Oswald @shortcutshari
- Norm Young @stormin_30
- Hal Hostetler @TVWizard
- Sharon Weaver @sharoneweaver
Some relevant links shared by the team:
- Can’t open access attachment in outlook web app (https://community.spiceworks.com/topi…)
- Unblock Attachments (https://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/blo…)
- Office 365 users can’t open or view attachments in Outlook Web App (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exch…)
- Outlook.com web access block some type of files like MS Access (ACCDB) (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o…)
- Unblock or Allow Microsoft Access Databases and Other File Attachments in Microsoft Outlook Emails (https://www.fmsinc.com/Microsoftacces…)
