Configuring Outlook for Home Use
Possibly the biggest reason why I have been encouraging all of you to pick up the student version of Microsoft Office from DoIT is because it includes Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 is great because it is the only version of Outlook that has the ability to connect to CUmail. In addition it gives you features and options that are not available from the web interface such as the ability to assign labels to items in your calendar.
The way I look at the differences between using the web interface and using Outlook is like this. Using the web interface is like going to an Omaha Royals baseball game and using Outlook is like going to Chicago to watch a good team the Cubs or the Sox play. Going to see a minor league game has it charms but there is nothing like watching a Major League team play. The same is true with Outlook, the web interface does a lot of neat things but it is not as good as Outlook.
I know some of you already know this and have tried to setup Outlook to work with CUmail but have run into problems when you are not on campus. To make Outlook work correctly and be secure there are some extra steps you must take to configure Outlook. The real problem is these extra steps are not intuitively obvious.
To get around this problem the administrator of CUmail, Dave Cook, has written a document outlining how to configure Outlook. I have attached this document for you to use. The document includes pictures of all the important steps to make it easy for anyone to follow.
