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.

Microsoft Office365 – A Journey to the Cloud

What is office 365?

Office365 is a cloud-based technology service from Microsoft which includes all popular applications from this family for collaboration and communication for businesses of almost every organization. Office365 helps organization to save  time, money and less utilization of resources . office365 is accessible from any part of the globe using internet.

It helps SMB to use costly communication and collaboration solution like Sharepoint server, Exchange server from Microsoft without purchasing and deploying them into their own server. All that they need is to have an internet connection with office 365.com and a login ID.

MS Offerings

Microsoft offers Office 2010 Plus, Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online, and Lync in this cloud based solution.

Features

Office 2010 Plus and Web Apps offers the working environment  familiar with the office application  in office365.com and create and manage their document as they do in the desktop version using web browser with some real time authoring capability between multiple users. It also provide social connector for Outlook to get most of your social collaboration into lights.

Through Exchange Online Office365 offers 25GB of Mailbox with Outlook web access and voice mail capability.

SharePoint online offers Teamsite and collaboration functionality which also includes integration of custom development components. SharePoint online will definitely change the way of collaboration for all sort of customers, methinks.

Lync online helps customer to real time communication via chat,voice call and video call. Users can arrange online conference and link their landlines with Lync and enable them to call via Lync. Lync will replace Live meeting and Office Communication Server (OCS).

Microsoft Office 365 features