Setup Outlook 2010 desktop application for Office 365 Email account

This post applies to: Office 365 email account, Outlook 2010, Windows 7

Make sure your office 365email account has created and you can login to outlook web access. Now follow the steps below to connect your email account to your favorite email client.

1. Go to Control Panel>Mail and open add new account wizard as the image below.

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2. On the Add new Account window enter your name, email and password and the click next.

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3. Click finish to complete configuration and Now open Outlook 2010.

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4. Now you can send receive email from your Outlook.

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Hope this helps.

Office 365 Task list Integration with Outlook 2010 and Filtering

Applies to Office 365 SharePoint list and Outlook 2010.

How to Integrate and Filter an Office 365 Task list with Outlook 2010

1. Navigate to the task list you want to integrate with Outlook and click Connect to Outlook from the ribbon control.

office 365 connect to outlook

2. Click “Allow” and “Yes” consequently and finally the list will be shown in Outlook.

Now if you want to filter this list for example you want to see the task that is assigned to you or a particular name only then follow the following steps to achieve this.

Right click to the task list on Outlook and then select “View Settings…”

Office365 task list on Outlook view settings

3. Click Filter… and then From Filter window go to Advanced tab. Click Filed>Frequently-used field

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4. Now go to Advanced tab and Enter the User name that you want to filter the list. Click Ok and exit the filter windows.

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5. Now if you see the list at Outlook it will find the tasks only assigned to the user you have entered before.

filtered task list on Outlook

Hope this helps.