Set up your email account using the Outlook Wizard – Outlook 2007

All you need to do is type your email address and password to set up Microsoft Outlook 2007 to access your Office 365 or other Microsoft Exchange-based email. Outlook uses a process called Autodiscover to automatically find your settings and set up an Exchange connection to your account.

Set up an Exchange connection to your email in Outlook 2007

1. Open Outlook 2007. If the Outlook 2007 Startup Wizard opens automatically, on the first page of the wizard click Next.
2. On the E-mail Accounts page of the wizard, click Next to set up an email account.
   • If the Outlook 2007 Startup Wizard doesn’t open, on the Tools menu, click Account Settings. In theAccount Settings dialog box, on the E-mail tab, click New.
3. On the Auto Account Setup page, Outlook may try to automatically fill in the Your Name and E-mail Address settings based on how you logged on to your computer. If the settings are filled in and they’re correct, click Next to have Outlook finish setting up your account.
   • If the settings in the Auto Account Setup page aren’t filled in or aren’t correct, do the following:
     • Type the correct settings based on the information that was provided to you by the person who manages your email account.
     • If the name in the Your Name box isn’t correct, you may need to reset the options on the Auto Account Setup page before you can edit your name. To reset the options, select and then clear the check box next to Manually configure server settings or additional server types.
4. After you click Next on the Auto Account Setup page of the wizard, Outlook performs an online search to find your email server settings.

   Outlook 2007 displays a message that asks you to allow a website to automatically set up your account. Outlook must connect to that website periodically to make sure your account is up to date. If you don’t want to see this message every time Autodiscover runs, select Don’t ask me about this website again, and then click Allow.

   Outlook 2007 continues setting up your account. You’ll be asked for your user name and password before Outlook 2007 can connect to your account. Make sure you enter your full email address (for example, tony@contoso.com) as your user name. You may be prompted to enter your user name and password several times before you connect.