Setup Cannot Continue because Outlook isn’t Configured to have a Default Profile : Fix the error

iCloud is a handy tool when it comes to syncing your contacts and calendars in Outlook and other Apple devices. It is well known that Microsoft brings new issues with it's every new update and it's the user who has to face the issues. Earlier also, Outlook had issues with iCloud where users were getting an error that said "Set of folders can't be opened" after launching Outlook. Now another issue is going on with Outlook and iCloud. In this error, when you try to configure iCloud with Outlook, you would get an error stating that "Setup Cannot Continue because Outlook isn’t Configured to have a Default Profile". Whatever you try, reinstalling Office and iCloud doesn't work. So, I'm sharing a simple fix for this issue, just go through the steps given below:

1. Perform an Online Repair for Office:

• To perform an online repair of Office, open run box by pressing Windows and R keys together from the keyboard and type appwiz.cpl and click OK.
• After this, search for Microsoft Office (the version which is installed in your machine) from the list of installed applications. Right click on it and click Change.

• After clicking change, a window will appear with the options, "Quick Repair" and "Online Repair". Select online repair and proceed. When the repair gets completed, don't launch Outlook.

2. Set Outlook as default Windows email client

• Click on the start button and start typing "Default Apps" and from the search results, open the Default Apps setting.

• Now, set Outlook as a default email application.

3. Repair iCloud

• Open the iCloud app and sign out of your account. If it opens the browser to remove the chrome extension of iCloud, remove the extension.
• Follow the steps mentioned in step 1 and complete the repair of iCloud. Instead of Office, select iCloud and repair it.
• Now restart your machine

4. Use the PowerShell to fix the issue permanently
This is the final step which will actually resolve the issue now. If you want to skip the above 3 steps, you may skip them and try this fix directly.

• Open PowerShell window as admin and run the following commands:

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*Outlook*”} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –Online

• Now run the following command in the same PowerShell window:

Get-AppxPackage “*Outlook*” | Remove-AppxPackage

• Now close the PowerShell window and open PowerShell again as a regular non-admin app and run the following command:

Get-AppxPackage “*Outlook*” | Remove-AppxPackage

• Now open iCloud and sign in using your iCloud credentials. After iCloud opens, tick the checkbox of "Mail" in iCloud and then click Apply.

You would see that iCloud would download your contacts and calendars and would merge them in Outlook.

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