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Microsoft Outlook email configuration on Windows
Last Updated 5 years ago

This tutorial was created on MS Windows and intended to work with MS Outlook.

1. Go to control panel: ⊞ Win + R control.exe and hit Enter

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2. Choose Mail (32-bit) [sometimes it will say Microsoft Outlook as well]

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3. Choose Show Profiles...

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4. Choose Add...

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5. Enter a descriptive name

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6. Fill out the form with your name, email address, and password, then click Next.

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7. After a short while, it will prompt you to allow our site to configure your settings. Click the checkbox and click Allow.

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8. It may ask you for credentials again. You may also have to tell it to use a different account, if it is not using your email address as the username.

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9. Confirm the 3 checkboxes, and click Finish.

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10. Before closing the control panel Mail applet, choose your new profile to always start, or choose prompt for a profile to be used so that Outlook will ask you each time you start.

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11. When you start Outlook, it will ask you one last time (provided you check the checkbox) for your username and password.

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12. Now Outlook will show your account inbox, etc...

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