How to Configure Outlook to connect to Microsoft (Live, MSN, Hotmail, Outlook.com) email account

Опубликовано: 19 Октябрь 2024
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Configure Live, Msn, Outlook.com or Hotmail com Account With Microsoft Outlook

In this video we wlill learn how to configure your microsoft mail account in outlook 2013.

Microsoft has announced to migrate all its outlook.com mailboxes to the office 365 Exchange Online Mail Servers, which made it very easy for us to configure your microsoft mail account with Outlook 2013. You may have one of the following mail accounts of microsoft,

@live.com
@outlook.com
@msn.com
@hotmail.com.

You no longer need the Outlook Connector Add In or to mannuly configure IMAP/POP3 settings.

Well Its very easy and within a minute, you will be able to access your mails by configuring your microsoft mail account.

So follow this simple steps.

Launch the outlook.
On the welcome wizard screen click on next.
Its asking "Do you want to set up outloook to connect to an email account?". Make sure its checked as yes and click on next.
Under the Email Account section fill in the details.
Type in your name in the name field.
In the address box, provide your mail id and then password following by re-typing it.

Click on next.

The windows security pop up will ask you to provide your password.
So enter your mail account password and click on OK.

Once it shows the window saying "Congratulations! Your email account was successfully configured and is ready to use", our mission is successfull. For the final step just click on Finish.
Click on OK if it says "You must restart outlook for these changes take effect."
You are all set up with your outlook.com account.

Thats pretty easy compared to the previous tedious and time taking method.

Now if you have other than outlook.com account. Like from among these three domains.
@live.com
@msn.com or
@hotmail.com?
Its again pretty easy and method is same for all these three domain accounts.

Open the outlook and this time instead of filling the information under "Email Account" section, select the other option "Manual Setup or additional server types" and click on Next.

On the next screen select the second option which says "outlook.com or exchange ActiveSync compatible service" and click on next.

Here provide your information.
Type in your Name in the Name field.
Then your email address.
Under the server information fill the Mail Server field with "m.hotmail.com".
This field shold be same for any of these three kind of mail accounts ([email protected], [email protected] or [email protected]) Under the logon information type the password for your account and click on Next.

if The "Test Account Settings" shows the task "Log onto Exchange ActiveSync mail Server" as completed, then you have succesfully completed the mission. Close the window and then clik on Finish.

There You go your mail box is ready to be use and you can now receive your important mails.