A client of mine, Michele George, created a cheat sheet for adding Outlook to Apple devices. It’s so good I’m sharing it with y’all! Thanks, Michele!
Steps to add Outlook mail to Iphone/Ipad
To Add an Email Account:
- Install Outlook on your device
- Open Outlook
- Enter yourusername@yourdomain into the window for email address
- If the window is already populated with a different address, just click “back”
- Click Add Account
- Enter your password
- Click Sign In
- A window should appear that says “Unable to Log in – please use IMAP and login again.
- Click Continue
- You should now see a window for IMAP settings.
- Look towards the bottom and find the button for “Use Advanced Settings”
- Slide it to active
- Enter the following information into the corresponding windows:
- Email address
- Display Name: Short descriptive name. Example: Work Email
- Description (This creates the letters that will allow you to differentiate between accounts so be sure to give thought to what letters will help you identify them)
- IMAP Hostname: Your email IMAP server
- IMAP Username: YourEmailUsername@YourDomain
- IMAP Password: Your email password
- SMTP Hostname: Your SMTP server
- SMTP Username: YourEmailUsername@YourDomain
- SMTP Password: YourEmailUsername@YourDomain
- CLICK SIGN IN
- Look towards the bottom and find the button for “Use Advanced Settings”
- Would you like to add another account:
- Let’s Do It!
- Repeat for other accounts.
- To add more accounts at a later date:Find the 3 parallel lines in the top left corner – Click.
Find the gear symbol in the bottom left corner – click.
Mid screen, see “Add Account” – Click.
Choose “Add Email Account” – Click.
Follow directions shown above.
If you see a window asking you to select your email provider, look to the bottom and choose advanced settings and click the blue envelope (IMAP).
To Add the Calendar:
The calendar should appear within a few seconds.
- At the bottom of the screen, click on the calendar icon.
- Click Add an Account
- For email address, enter: YourUsername@YourDomain
- Sign In
- Enter password: Your Password
The calendar should appear within a few seconds.
To Add DropBox:
- Look to the bottom of the screen and click on “Files”
- On the left, click on “Add DropBox”
- Enter the email address: Your Dropbox email address
- Enter the password: Your Password. Click Sign In
- A window will appear saying Microsoft Outlook would like access to the files and folders in your DropBox.
Click ALLOW - Check yor email – DropBox may send an email asking you to verify this is an authorized access. If they do, just click ‘Yes’ in the body of the Email.