MCS Exchange Email

Background

MCS Exchange email is a new email system from Microsoft. This service is in the process of being rolled out to the departments of the University. At this stage, some departments do not have Exchange email accounts available to them.

If you are not certain whether you have an Exchange email account, please contact the Helpdesk for confirmation.

For more information on the current Exchange Migration Project, please see the Migration Project Information.

Accessing MCS Exchange

Exchange email can be accessed in two ways:

• The University's Exchange Webmail service.
• Via an email client program. This is only possible from computers that are connected to the University's network. The email clients that ICT support for connection to the Exchange email server are Microsoft 2003 (SP2) and Entourage 2004. Exchange can also be accessed via Evolution on Linux, but this is not supported by ICT Helpdesk Services.

Setup guides for the following programs are available:

• Outlook 2003
• Outlook 2007
• Entourage 2004
• Evolution 2.10
• Outlook Web Help
• Windows Mobile

Outlook 2003

If you are using Windows as your operating system, the standard email client to use it Outlook 2003.

The following are all the user guides, and some extra help guides to assist you using MCS Exchange in Outlook 2003.

Outlook 2007

If you are using Windows as your operating system, you have the option to use the email client Outlook 2007.

The following are all the user guides, and some extra help guides to assist you using MCS Exchange in Outlook 2007.

Entourage 2004

If you are using a Mac with OSX as your operating system, the standard email client to use it Entourage 2004.

The following are all the user guides, and some extra help guides to assist you using MCS Exchange in Entourage 2004.

Evolution 2.10

The following guides will assist you in setting up Evolution 2.10 on either Linux Mandriva 2007.1, Fedora FC7, or Ubuntu 7.04.

The following are all the user guides have been developed to assist you setting up MCS Exchange in Evolution 2.10.

Outlook Web Access

If you are trying to access your email from off campus, the best way to do this is with Outlook Web Access.

The following guides are some extra help to assist you using MCS Exchange in Outlook Web Access.

Windows Mobile ActiveSync

This section describes how to configure a telephone device running Windows Mobile version 5 (smartphone) to connect and synchronise email, calendar, task and contact information with an MCS Exchange mailbox via a GPRS internet connection.