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I am trying to setup an online account that connects to my companies office365 but i'm getting the error: "Cannot fins WebDAV endpoint". I can normally connect and login to the account via browser. Do i need to install an additional connector to do this?

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Am I right in assuming that you are using gnome online accounts? I had a similar problem in other distros, and I was able to replicate it on an Ubuntu 17.10 virtual machine.

After clicking the new exchange account button in gnome online accounts, I typed in my email and password and submitted. The following screen came up. (I switched out my normal email address.) See photo below.

Before
Before

After changing the custom username field to be my entire email address and the server field to be "outlook.office365.com" (this server name may not apply to you; to find yours, look in the settings of your webmail page), the configuration succeeded, and ubuntu asked for my password again to add it to a keychain. See photo below.

After After

Also, if you are using gnome evolution for your email, you may need to run the following command to install support for the exchange web server:

sudo apt install evolution-ews
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  • This is not installed with LUbuntu... have you a solution to connect as showed her over with lubuntu? – MUY Belgium May 06 '20 at 08:37
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    This is what I've been doing, and this is what has not been working. Would love to see other answers! – sh37211 Nov 09 '20 at 17:46
  • This did the trick for my work account! Just had to make sure Custom > Username was an exact match of "Email" (including the org's domain) and that the server was set as described (it resets on each failure! IME). – Verax Mar 31 '21 at 18:12
  • Took me months of passive troubleshooting to do so until i stumbled upon this post, thanks! – AkIonSight Oct 25 '21 at 11:33
  • don't forget to sudo apt-get update -y before trying to install evolution-ews. – Kamafeather Sep 21 '22 at 16:11
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    Just a couple of hints, if this isn't enough: 1. Try using outlook.com instead of outlook.office365.com. 2. Use an app password instead of your main account password, expecially if you have 2fa activated. - If you dont know how to create an app password, check this ms guide - Note: this may be locked due to domain security setups. – Riccardo Manzan Dec 14 '23 at 23:03