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These instruction are meant to be used when setting up a Metropolia Exchange account in Mac Office 2011 Outlook.

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Setting up a Metropolia e-mail in the Outlook application (MS Office 2011 Mac UK)
1. Start the Outlook application

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The Outlook application is usually located in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Outlook(.app).

2a. Adding user name in the Wellcome window

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2b. Adding account manually

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3.    In the Accounts window, select Exchange account as the type of the new account Image Added

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4.    Enter your Metropolia e-mail account information Image Added

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*E-mail address:* your Metropolia e-mail address
*Authentication Method:* User Name and Password
*User name:* Metropolia account (usually the account is enough -- sometime the account has to be given in the form PK\account.)
*Password:* your Metropolia account password
*Configure automatically:* on
After you have confirmed the information click on the *Add Account* button.

Waite for a moment while the account is verified and the connection to the Exchange server is established.

If there are a lot of messages in your Exhange e-mail box it can take a while before the content is transferred to the local disk of your Mac computer.

During the transfer the computer may seem slow but that is normal.