Does Microsoft Outlook have an MCP server?
Microsoft Outlook maintains an official MCP server.
Preview and gated: requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and an Entra enterprise-app registration.
- Access
- Built into the product
- Endpoint
- Work IQ Mail MCP — Agent 365, tenant-scoped
- Category
- Communication
The receipts
Ships inside Microsoft Outlook's own product rather than as a standalone server. Documented at learn.microsoft.com.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office services through the Graph API
Connect it
Ships inside the vendor's own app or CLI rather than as a standalone download.
Add it from the terminal, then restart your session:
claude mcp add outlook -- npx -y <package-from-readme>Swap in the exact package and flags from the package page — most servers need an API key passed as an environment variable.
Add --scope user to make it available in every project.
Open Settings → Developer → Edit Config and add the server to claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"outlook": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"<package-from-readme>"
],
"env": {
"API_KEY": "…"
}
}
}
}Restart Claude Desktop after saving.
Add to .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for
every project:
{
"mcpServers": {
"outlook": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"<package-from-readme>"
],
"env": {
"API_KEY": "…"
}
}
}
}A green dot in Settings → MCP means it connected.
Add to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"outlook": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"<package-from-readme>"
]
}
}
}Then pick the server from the tools menu in Copilot's agent mode.
Questions
Does Microsoft Outlook have an official MCP server?
Yes. Microsoft Outlook maintains an official MCP server.
How do I connect Microsoft Outlook to Claude?
Run the server locally and register it in Claude's MCP config. In Claude Code that's a single "claude mcp add" command; in Claude Desktop you add it to claude_desktop_config.json.
How is this verdict verified?
Microsoft ships first-party Work IQ Mail (mcp_MailTools) and Calendar MCP servers for Outlook under Agent 365, connectable from Claude Code and VS Code via a tenant-scoped URL. GitHub metadata is refreshed every six hours.
How we know
Microsoft ships first-party Work IQ Mail (mcp_MailTools) and Calendar MCP servers for Outlook under Agent 365, connectable from Claude Code and VS Code via a tenant-scoped URL.
- GitHub data refreshed on 2026-10-08, and again every six hours.
- Vendor docs checked by hand on 2026-08-10.
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