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titleManual Method

  1. Ensure Outlook is closed

  2. Click on the Windows Start Button (at the bottom left of your screen) to open the Start Menu. With the Start Menu open, type outlook.exe /manageprofiles (note the space before the slash!) and hit the Enter key.

  1. If you receive an error like the image below please instead type outlook.exe /profiles and press enter, which should take you straight to step 6 below.

  1. If a User Account Control prompt appears, click Yes:

  1. A window will appear with 3 options, click

Show Profiles

Another dialogue box called Mail should appear. Click Add...

  1. Choose a new name for your new profile and click OK.

  1. The Add Account wizard will now appear. Type in:

    1. your email address (in the format: CRSid@http://cam.ac.uk )

    2. your Raven password

    3. click Next, then Finish

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8. Back at the Mail dialogue, click Always use this profile, select your new profile from the drop-down menu, and click OK.

9. Go back to the Start Menu and open Outlook. Your new profile is now loaded and your Exchange Online account is now added in the left sidebar (NB: This will show up as crsid@<mail domain>.cam.ac.uk eg abc123@medschl.cam.ac.uk)

10. Wait for your mailbox folders to sync. Outlook is now set up, and you can begin adding customisations to your new profile (such as your email signature).

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titleUsing Configure Multiple Outlook Profilesprofile chooser

You can have more than one Outlook profile set up on your computer and switch between them. This may be useful if you have settings that you wish to duplicate into Exchange Online. Unfortunately you can only run one profile at a time. Here is how to set it up:

  1. This must

  2. Ch

  3. be done after creating a new profile

  4. Close Outlook

  5. In the search bar in the taskbar of your computer type Control Panel and hit the enter key on your keyboard

  6. the Control Panel window will appear. Type Mail in the ‘Search Control Panel’ area

    And click on the Mail application that is displayed

  7. A window will pop up

  8. Click on Show Profiles

  9. A window will pop up showing you all of your email profiles

  10. There are two settings you can choose on this screen:

    1. Prompt for a profile to be used - every time you launch Outlook you will be prompted to choose which profile you want to use, allowing you to switch profiles by re-launching Outlook.

    2. Always use this profile - if you have several profiles and want one to be the one that is automatically launched when you go into Outlook, choose this option and select the profile you wish to use. you will not be able to easily switch between profiles if you configure this option

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