Tag: Email Accounts
How to create an Outlook 2016 profile without an email account
After Office 365 (Office 2016) has been installed, you will be prompted to configure an email account. Not everyone wants to use Outlook as their email client or only want to use it to maintain their contact and calendar data. Unlike earlier versions of Outlook, the only way to eliminate the constant prompt to configure […]
How to manually configure an email account in Outlook 2016
Some people are getting confused when migrating from earlier versions of Outlook to current versions of Outlook ‘2016 in reference as to how to manually configure an email account since the UI has changed. The first screen that gets presented is the one below which requires you to enter an email address. Once the email […]
How to sync POP3-IMAP contact/calendar data
Contact/calendar data cannot be sync’d across multiple devices without the use of 3rd party sync software such as CompanionLink An alternative approach would be to create a free Outlook.com account (if you don’t already have one). Once created, perform the following in Outlook – add the Outlook.com account to the Outlook profile, this will result […]
Understanding Auto-Discover and setting up email accounts
Many people new to Outlook and those migrating from an earlier version follow the approach of just entering their email address and password for the email account being configured without understanding the consequences especially for those who want to set up their email account using the POP3 protocol versus IMAP as a for instance. Letting […]
