Outlook on the Web Articles
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Calendar
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A meeting is a calendar item that involves at least two people and/or rooms or resources.
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An appointment is a calendar item you create just for yourself (no other people, no rooms or resources).
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A calendar event is an all-day meeting or appointment.
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Some users have reported that when they try to add a room to a meeting (to reserve the space), they are seeing many unexpected non-Cornell resources listed.
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A Resource Account, which represents the calendar for a room or a piece of equipment, can be configured to behave in a number of ways. Only the owner (or someone delegated by the owner) can configure a Resource Account.
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Meeting invitations look a lot like any other email message. The difference is that they control what appears on your calendar. So don't ignore or delete them.
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One of our recommendations for Calendar Harmony is that you send meeting invitation updates to all participants on all changes. This article describes how to have all meeting-related messages automatically filtered out of your Inbox and into a folder just for such messages.
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When composing a message to send to more than one recipient, you must use semi-colons between addresses in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields. If you leave these out (or use commas), Outlook on...
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By default, your time zone is set to Eastern Time (US & Canada) the first time you access your account through Outlook on the Web. This articled describes how to change that setting.
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As the owner or delegate for a Resource account, you can share that account's calendar with others.
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This article describes how to use Outlook on the Web to share your calendar with the person (or people) you specify.
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Categories are markers you create to help you track important messages and events.
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Use Outlook on the web to view a calendar that has been shared with you. This applies to both NetID accounts and Resource accounts.
Email
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Rules allow you to have incoming (or outgoing) messages sorted, filed, marked, or otherwise handled automatically.
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By creating rules, you can have your e-list messages sorted into various folders automatically.
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This article describes why some attachments don't get to the recipient and what you can do about it.
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Outlook on the Web can be set to send messages in plain text or HTML. You can configure it to use either as the default; you can also change to the other format while composing a message.
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Conversation view clusters your messages together, based on Subject.
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All the Office 365 email clients include an out-of-office assistant that responds to incoming messages with a note from you. When you use this feature, you have the option of enabling it at various levels.
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Folders allow you to organize your messages.
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If you will be out of the office (or otherwise away from your email), people who send you messages may wonder why you haven't responded. The Automatic Replies feature lets you create a reply that will be sent once to each person who sends you a message.
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To print an email message, click the three dot icon, either in the toolbar just below the red, Cornell-branded tool bar or in the message pane, then click Print. Microsoft frequently...
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In Office 365, you can recover messages after deletion using Outlook on the Web. Not all messages can be recovered.
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Outlook on the Web lets you search your messages in a variety of ways.
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When composing a message to send to more than one recipient, you must use semi-colons between addresses in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields. If you leave these out (or use commas), Outlook on...
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By default, your time zone is set to Eastern Time (US & Canada) the first time you access your account through Outlook on the Web. This articled describes how to change that setting.
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Folder Sharing lets you give others access to your mail folders. You specify which folder, and the level of access, that is, whether the delegate can simply see items in a folder, or whether they can create, edit, and/or delete items.
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A signature is a block of text that appears automatically at the end of the messages you send.
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The Problem Joe User sets up Exchange's auto-reply feature on his account. Joe User receives a message from an e-list. Exchange dutifully sends the auto-reply to the...
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Categories are markers you create to help you track important messages and events.
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Recently, spammers have been setting up their email to look as if it is coming from a trusted source (for example, you), through a process known as spoofing. If yours is the address they are spoofing, you may receive many "Delivery failure" messages.
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If you are having problems with your email, one common diagnostic aid is a complete list of the message's headers. Headers show the path a message took to get from the sender to the recipient. The IT Service Desk or other technical support may ask you to provide a message's headers.
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These steps will make mail folders (that have been shared with you) available to you automatically, every time you use Outlook on the Web.
Troubleshooting
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When an email user has set up forwarding from an Office 365 account to an external address (typically set through Outlook on the web), Outlook on the web displays an alert every time the user...
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All three major versions of Outlook (Windows, Mac, and Outlook on the web) have a control that allows you to turn off forwarding for your meeting proposals. This prevents someone you invite from...
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All three major versions of Outlook (Windows, Mac, and Outlook on the web) have a control that allows you to turn off forwarding for your meeting proposals. This prevents someone you invite from...
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User Experience When trying to reach Outlook on the web at outlook.cornell.edu, you instead get a big warning message from your browser that "Your connection is not private."...
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