Microsoft 365 is a platform that helps businesses and individuals meet their emailing and collaboration requirements. Microsoft 365 users can access their mailboxes in Outlook by configuring Outlook app with their Microsoft 365 account. This helps them access emails easily and respond to them quickly.
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How to configure Microsoft 365 account in Outlook?
Configure Outlook For Mac 2011 Office 365 Outlook
Here, we’ll guide you through the process of manually configuring Outlook with Microsoft 365 account. But, before starting the process, make sure that you have Outlook app installed on your system.
Configuring Outlook for Mac 2011 To change the settings on an existing account. When prompted, enter your @usf.edu email address, your @usf.edu password, check the box to Remember this password in my keychain. To set up a new account. Open the Preferences menu and click Accounts. Start Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011; Click Tools – Accounts: Click Exchange Account: Figure 2: Adding an Exchange account. Fill in (or edit) the fields as follows: Configure automatically = NOT checked E-mail address = [email protected] (e.g. Click Add Account.
- The first thing you need to do is go to “Control Panel” and select “Mail.”
- A new window will appear on the screen, click “Add” to add a profile
- Now, in the opened window, select “Manual setup” and click “Next.”
- In the next step, select “Microsoft 365” and enter the details for your Microsoft 365 account and click “Next.”
- The process will take a few seconds to verify the Microsoft 365 account. Once it is verified, the Autodiscover.xml login window will appear on the screen. Enter the Microsoft 365 account credentials and click “Next.”
- When you’re done logging in with your Microsoft 365 account, a notification window will appear on the screen displaying:
Now, open Outlook on your system. The Outlook app will take a few seconds to set up your Microsoft 365 account on it, and then you can check all your Microsoft 365 emails via Outlook.
However, if your Outlook is already configured with Microsoft 365 account, and you want to add another Microsoft 365 or any other POP/IMAP account to it, then follow the below steps:
- Open Outlook and go to the “File” tab and select “Account Settings.”
- A new wizard will appear on the screen. Click “New.”
- In the next step, select “Manual setup” and click “Next.”
- From the opened wizard, select “POP or IMAP” and click “Next.”
- Fill the required fields and go to “More Settings” to add the server details manually and click “Next.”
It will take a few seconds to set up the IMAP account (for example, Gmail) with Outlook. Once it is done, go to your Outlook, and you’ll find the Gmail mailbox in Outlook.
Why sometimes Outlook does not accept the password of your email account?
It generally happens when your email account needs better security while accessing in other applications. In that case, you need to create an application password different from your regular login password of your email account. Using this application password, you can configure your email account in the Outlook application. For example, for Gmail account, you can create application password by visiting My account under Google apps, and then navigating to Sign-in & security>Signing to Google>Password and sign-in method.
Conclusion
You can configure Outlook with a Microsoft 365 account manually. When you set up Microsoft 365 account on your Outlook, you’ll get all the emails on your desktop. But, if you want to avoid any risks of data loss, backup your Microsoft 365 data, and this can be done using Office 365 backup & Restore tool.
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Having recently started to use a Mac at home, quickly started to miss Outlook. So I was delighted to hear of the release of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011.
The following are the instructions to set up IMAP access in Outlook 2011.
Google Apps users, please follow the default instructions unless otherwise noted, replacing ‘your_domain.com’ with your actual domain name.
To set up your Outlook 2011 client to work with Gmail:
1. Enable IMAP in Gmail. Don’t forget to click Save Changes when you’re done.
2. Open Outlook 2011.
3. Click Tools > Accounts.
4. On the Accounts window, choose E-mail Account.
5. Enter your email address (including ‘@gmail.com’), and password in the E-mail address filed. Google Apps users, enter your full email address, e.g. ‘[email protected]_domain.com.’. As you do so some more options should become available.
6. Once you have entered your Email address the options window will expand:
- In the Account Type dropdown menu, select IMAP; enter the incoming and outgoing server names shown below.
- In the ‘User Name’ field, give your full Gmail address, including ‘@gmail.com’ or ‘@your_domain.com.’
- Incoming Server, check Override default port and Use SSL to connect (recommended) and change port to 993
- Outgoing Server, check Override default port and Use SSL to connect (recommended) and change port to 587
- After creating these settings, clicking Add Acount takes you to the end of the setup.