How do I manually Configure OUtlook for Mac 2011 for use with Office 365. I cannot use autodiscover. Our environment consists of various apple computers. We are migrating to office 365. Currently my users are using the autodiscover cname record to point to their old hosted solution. But I need to configure outlook on macbooks before i migrate. Outlook for Mac doesn't use PST as format, it stores messages in a different way shown here, messages individually,Categories,Folders,Images,etc. Images attached. Manual Configuration Outlook 2011 Mac OSX Office 365 AppRiver Hosted Exchange Microsoft Outlook Outlook 2011 (For Mac) Outlook Menu. Click Outlook from top left menu bar and choose Preferences. Outlook Preferences. Click Accounts.
Outlook 2011 for Mac Configuration Guide
Open Outlook 2011 on your Mac.
Click Tools and Accounts...
Either click Exchange Account, or click the + symbol located on the bottom left and click Exchange Account.
Please enter your email address followed by your User name and password and click Add Account
(The username is normally your full email address, if you are unsure of your username then please contact your local administrator or check in the Parallels control panel, under Exchange > Mailboxes > Login column)
4a) If your account does not auto configure you will be presented with the screen below, simply enter the server in as https://outlook.hs20.net/ews/exchange.asmx and click Add Account.
Outlook 2011 will now try to automatically configure your email account, if successful it will ask allow our server to configure your email account. Tick Always use my response for this server and click Allow
Your Account will now carry on configuring once complete you will be displayed a list of email accounts that have been setup. Press the Red Cross, and your emails will start to download.
Send a Message
To send a message, click in the Home ribbon.
A new message window will open.
You can either click the address book next to the To, Cc, or Bcc field to select names, or type email addresses in the desired field(s). After you've typed a few characters, Outlook will display a list of matches. Click a match to select it.
A single message can be addressed to no more than 300 individual addresses. That's the combined total of the To, Cc, and Bcc lines. If you need to send messages to larger groups, look into our E-list service and our Bulkmail service.
If you put more than one address in any of the fields (To, Cc, or Bcc), separate them with semi-colons.
Sending on Behalf of Someone Else
You can only change the information in the From field if you have been given delegate rights for another person. Copies of the messages you send on their behalf will be stored in your own Sent Items folder, not theirs. See our Acting On Behalf Of article for more information.
Sending from an Exchange Group Account
Outlook 2011 Mac Update
You can only change the information in the From field if you have been given the necessary rights by an EGA Owner or Administrator. Copies of the messages you send on their behalf will be stored in your own Sent Items folder, not theirs. See our EGA/Resource Account articles for more information.
After entering a Subject and completing the body of your message, click in the Message ribbon.
Microsoft Outlook 2011 For Mac
Send Attachments
While composing a message, click on the paperclip in the Message ribbon.
Navigate to the file you want to attach, select it, and click .
You can also drag a file from your desktop or folder into the new message window. The file name will appear in the Attachments field.
Outlook For Mac 2011 Manual Downloads
The maximum size of a message, including any attachments, is 25 megabytes. Encoding the attachment (making it part of the message) adds to its size, so if a file is almost 25 MB, it may be too large when encoded.