These instructions apply only to student email powered by Microsoft Outlook Live.

One great feature of Microsoft Outlook Live is the ability to connect Microsoft Outlook and securely sync your email, contacts, tasks & calendar between your desktop client and Microsoft's servers.

Requirements: Microsoft Outlook 2007/2010, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7

1. Close Outlook, if it is currently open.
2. In Control Panel, open Mail
   - Click Start, and then click Control Panel
   - Click User Accounts, and then click Mail (in classic view, double-click Mail)
   (In the 64-bit version of Windows Vista/7, select Additional Options and then click View 32-bit Control Panel Items to expose the Mail option.)
   - The Mail icon won't appear unless you have Outlook already installed.
3. In the Mail Setup dialog box, click Show Profiles.
4. Click Add.
5. Type the name Exchange Labs, and then click OK. The Add New E-mail Account wizard opens.
6. In the Auto Account Setup dialog box, enter your name, email address and password in the appropriate fields, and then click Next.
   
    
7. Outlook will display a message that asks you to annow a website to configure the Outlook settings. Outlook runs auto-configure periodically. If you don't want to see this message every time auto-configure runs, select Don't ask me about this website again, and then click Allow.
   
    
8. Enter your username and password again.
   

Outlook will auto-configure the account. You will be asked for your user name and password before Outlook can connect to Outlook Live. Make sure that you enter your full e-mail address (YourUserName@hawks.rockhurst.edu) as your user name. You may be prompted to enter your user name and password multiple times before you connect and may take a few minutes as your data is downloaded.