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On build number 0902 and higher you can sync contacts and calendar with Outlook for Mac 2016 but first you need to add the account to Outlook. See Add an email account to Outlook for instructions. Configuring iCal to access your Gmail calendar and then syncing Outlook to iCal enables you to give Outlook for Mac direct access to your Google calendar entries. 1 Open iCal and click on the “iCal” toolbar option. I notice with Outlook for Mac that replies and forwards are not showing in my Gmail when using the Outlook program on my Mac. For example, when I am using a Windows computer with IMAP to Gmail in Outlook, when I reply using Outlook it shows I've replied to the email in Gmail as well. Before opening Outlook, we should double check some settings in Gmail so that you can properly sync your messages to the desktop. Log into Gmail and click the settings button — look for the gear on the right. Using gmail. If you have turned on 2-step authentication for the Gmail account, create a new application password for Outlook for Mac and use that. Leave Configure automatically checked. Click Add Account.

I recently came home and noticed that my iMac was doing something odd. It looked like someone was remotely controlling the desktop and displaying something that had to do with accessing a Wells Fargo Bank account through a browser. I pulled the ethernet cable and rebooted the machine, and after a forced restart found that there was some sort of remote screen control app installed on my machine (I didn't make notes and don't remember what the app was called), and my backup drive was locked. Fortunately the backup drive was just an issue of editing the owner permissions. I wiped the drive, reinstalled OS X (El Capitan), recovered my data from a backup, and everything seems okay. What I'd like to know is whether or not there's a safe way to allow remote access to my machine.

I have always had ssh and vnc enabled, and port forwarding enabled for these services on my router, so that I can access my machine remotely. I have no idea how my machine was broken into, but I'm assuming it was by guessing the vnc password. (The vnc password was also the admin password, which would explain how they were able to install software.) Are there known vulnerabilities to vnc on El Capitan that allow someone access without the password? Is repeatedly trying different passwords an effective attack in this case? Enabling two-factor authorization should take care of password guessing if that's the issue. I would really like to be able to continue accessing my machine remotely, but only if it can be done more securely. Thanks for any helpful guidance on how that might be accomplished.

Back-to-My-Mac and ssh both require that you know the username AND the password. BTMM as you have observed can have additional factors to the login. BTMM and ssh both encrypt the entire connected session, including the username/password actions.

VNC (AND I DO NOT MEAN Screen Sharing) VNC does NOT require a username, just the password. VNC sends the password across the internet as clear text. No encryption. VNC does NOT encrypt the rest of the session. While VNC traffic is not clear text, it is not encrypted, so it can be viewed with the correct software. Screen Sharing does require a username/password, and the username/password exchange is encrypted. By default Screen Sharing does not encrypt the rest of the session, but you can go to the Screen Sharing preferences and change that.

Back-to-My-Mac does not require you to open any ports in your router. The initial connection is established via Apple servers which facility finding the remote Mac and then after telling both systems where the other is locate, the Apple servers step out of the way. Ssh uses a known port (22) and will be the subject of constant probes, just the the VNC port (5900). I personally take advantage of the fact that every ssh client will allow you to specify an alternate port for the connection ssh -p 23456 remote.host.name scp -P 23456 remote.host.name:file.to.copy /local/dir scp -P 23456 /local/dir/file.to.copy remote.host.name:/remote/dir sftp -P 23456 remote.host.name And every ssh GUI client I've seen also allows specifying the port to be used. Now you just tell your router to accept connections on port 23456 and direct them to port 22 on the Mac of your choice. Most routers will allow you to do this internet port A directed to local Mac port B.