How to get rid of winmail.dat attachments when using Office365 and Outlook 2016

Sometimes Outlook 2016 decides to send the body every email as a winmail.dat attachment. This works fine when the person you are sending the email to is using Outlook. But other mail users will get a blank message with a winmail.dat attachment that they can’t open.

This frustrating problem can be fixed by doing this:

  1. Login to office365 as an administrator
  2. Click the Admin Icon
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  3. Expand the Admin Centers Menu, and click Exchange
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  4. On the left, click “mail flow”, then click “remote domains”, make sure “Default, *” is selected, and click the Edit Pencil icon.
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  5. Edit the settings with arrows, and click Save.screen-shot-2016-09-30-at-12-51-12-pm
  6. Enjoy
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