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Faculty, staff, and student workers can set up the Outlook email client for Windows and Macs on their workstations.

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Microsoft Office 365 is a collection of cloud-based tools including those originally in the Office suite such as Outlook, Word, etc. UConn faculty, staff, and student workers will use Outlook through Office Microsoft 365 for their email accounts.

Outlook for Windows

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This guide applies to users of UConn Managed Workstations set up by ITS. If you have a personal device or non-managed UConn device, you will need to download and install Office using these instructions: Downloading Office from Office365 Installing Microsoft 365 apps.

  1. Open Outlook by clicking the icon on your desktop or searching for it in the Windows search bar.

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  2. If you

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  1. have not logged in on the computer before, a pop-up will appear to

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  1. log in. Enter your UConn email address

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  1. and click Connect.

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  2. When prompted for your password, enter your NetID password and click Continue

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Outlook for Mac

Outlook for Mac

To set up Outlook for MacOS, 

  1. Open Outlook for Mac.

  2. In the top left corner of the screen, navigate to Microsoft Outlook

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  1. → Settings...

  2. Select Accounts. 

  3. In the window that appears, click the plus (+) button in the bottom left corner and select

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  1. Add an Account...

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  2. In the

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  1. window that appears, enter your UConn email address and click Continue.

  2. Enter your NetID password.

  3. Click OK.

  4. Click Done.

  5. Close the Accounts window.

Apple Mail

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Note

It is not recommended to use the Apple Mail app for University mail. Compatibility with all Microsoft 365 features is not guaranteed.

  1. Open Apple Mail.

  2. In the menu bar, navigate

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  1. to Mail → Accounts...

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  1. In the new System Settings window, select Add Account…

  2. Click

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  1.  Microsoft Exchange.

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  2. Enter the account information as follows:

    • Name:

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    • University email address

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    • Email Address: University email address

    • NetID password associated with your account

  1. Select Mail and any other Apps you wish to use with this account.

  2. Click Done.

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