How to Setup Outlook with Office 365

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Prerequisites

1. You must have approved your Acceptable Usage Agreement through Compass.  

2. You must have received your Office 365 Account credentials.  

3.  You must have installed Office 2016 or Office 365 Desktop Applications.

Open Outlook, Note: if you already have an email account setup in Outlook then please open Mail from within Control Panel.

Office Menu

If Outlook asks you to create a new Profile, simply type in School Mail or another appropriate mail label.

Create mail profile

At the bottom of the Add Account screen, select Manual setup, then click Next.

Manual mail setup

Select POP or IMAP, then click Next

IMAP mail setup

Fill in the Mail details as per below, Enter Your name and Email Address, select IMAP as the Account Type, enter outlook.office365.com as the incoming mail server and smtp.office365.com as the outgoing mail server, use your full email address as your username, enter your EduPass/Office 365 Password,  Click on “More Settings” before clicking Next

IMAP mail settings

Click on the Outgoing Mail Server Tab and Put a tick in “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication”, make sure “Use same settings as my incoming mail server” is selected.  Then click on the “Advanced Tab”

Outgoing mail settings

In “Advanced” Tab screen, change the Incoming Mail server encryption type to “TLS” and the Outgoing Server encryption type to “Auto” Then click on OK

Advanced mail settings

Click on Next to Finish off your Outlook setup.