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Setting up multiple hosted exchange accounts in one Outlook 2010 on Windows 7

Set up the first account with the supplied setup facility. That is the easiest. However these instructions will also work for the first account

In windows go into: Control Panel / mail / email accounts

Click on New…

and you get

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Click next

The select “Manually configure…..

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Then Next

And select “Microsoft Exchange or compatible service”

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then Next

And enter the right server and username:

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The click “More Settings”

And in the “Connections” tab down the bottom select “Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP”

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Then click “Exchange Proxy Settings…”

And fill the page in as appropriate (server names might be different to these)

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Then OK and OK and Next

Then you will have to log in with the right username and password and the setup of the second account is complete.

Out of Office reply using Outlook Rules

Firstly you will need to create a new email and write whatever you want your Out Of Office reply to say. When you are happy with it, save it as a a .oft template. (see image for reference)

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Then go to:

-Tools

-Rules and Alerts

-New Rule

-Select ‘Check messages when they arrive’ under the Start from a blank rule category at the very bottom of the list.

-Next

-Tick ‘sent only to me’

-Next

Select whether you want it forwarded to someone else or moved to a folder. Select ‘reply using a specific template’. Click the link and navigate to ‘User Templates in File System’ (see image for reference).

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-Open

-Next

-Finish

That should do it. Test to make sure it is working fine and make sure you untick it when not out of the office.

Handling Outlook PST files

Open a .pst file

If you created a .pst file that does not appear in the Navigation Pane, add the .pst file to Outlook so that you can work with the items in it.

1. On the File menu, point to Open, and then click Outlook Data File.
2. Browse to the location of your wanted PST file.
3. Click the .pst file that you want to open, and then click OK.

The name of the folder that is associated with the data file appears in the Folder List. To view the Folder List, on the Go menu, click Folder List. By default, the folder will be called Personal Folders.

 

Close an Outlook Data File (.pst)

When you no longer need frequent access to an Outlook Data File (.pst), you can close the file. A closed file no longer appears in the Navigation Pane, but is not deleted from your computer.

* Right-click the name of the Outlook Data File (.pst) that you want to remove from the Navigation Pane, and then click Close name.

Close Outlook Data File (.pst) command

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