Question regarding MS Office 365

[GoinAllTheWay]

Tried looking online but can't find any obvious answers.

Was hoping if someone knew if you could add an exchange account using a shaw address on MS 365 on a home PC?

It's easily done on any mobile device but can't be done apparently using Outlook 2007 on my Win7 PC.

[psicodude]

Are you asking if you can attach to both a Shaw POP account and an Office365 account to Outlook 2007 on your PC? Because, yes you can.

If you are wondering if you can connect your Office365 account to Outlook 2007, you can but you require some windows updates to be applied first.

I'm not being a jerk here, I genuinely don't understand the question.

[Rathji]

I don't think the Shaw part is relevant. Office 2007 needs the tool that is avail in your office 365 downloads on the Web interface to work with Office 365. Often there are additional patches needed as well, so reboot and run Windows update if it doesn't work right away.

It should be easy to find once you are there, but let me know if it isn't and I will figure out it's exact name and where it is in the menu when I am on a PC

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[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by psicodude

Are you asking if you can attach to both a Shaw POP account and an Office365 account to Outlook 2007 on your PC? Because, yes you can.

If you are wondering if you can connect your Office365 account to Outlook 2007, you can but you require some windows updates to be applied first.

I'm not being a jerk here, I genuinely don't understand the question.

No, sorry, wasn't terribly clear.

Right now on all my mobile devices I have an exchange account only. That way whatever I do one one (send new email, read one, delete some) the same thing happens on my other mobile devices that also have an exchange account using my @shaw.ca email address.

However....on my home PC using Outlook 2007, I can not setup an exchage account without actually being connected to an exchange server unlike my mobile devices.

Can an exchange account be used in office 365 in the same manner as my mobile devices is bascially what I'm trying to determine prior to purchasing it.

[Rathji]

ok, I think I have figured your question out.

You are talking about the office 365 product that you buy off the shelf (or download), and not the email (etc) service that you sign up for and pay $15 a month or so, right? If not, then disregard the rest of this post. That is essentially a subscription that gives you whatever the current version of Office (presently Office 2103) is, on up to 5 computers, for as long as your subscription is current.

Shaw has exchange email now, so if you connect to it, you should have the same exchange functionality. See Shaw support for details, but I ma pretty sure that Office 2013 should autodiscover the proper settings.

That said, I suspect that your Shaw email could also be set up on your PC to be used through exchange rather than POP, but if it has been set up for a while, you would have to change the account settings, likely be setting up a new profile and adding it as an Exchange account rather than a POP/IMAP account.

If you call Shaw, they could clarify this for you.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Ah ya, I wasn't aware there was an add on service. I'm starting to think I don't fully understand the Office 365 product at all.

Yes, I was just refering to off the shelf product like you said.

That said, I suspect that your Shaw email could also be set up on your PC to be used through exchange rather than POP, but if it has been set up for a while, you would have to change the account settings, likely be setting up a new profile and adding it as an Exchange account rather than a POP/IMAP account.

I've tried already doing exactly as you suggested, no luck. Even tried uninstalling and doing a new install just to be sure. Outlook 2007 just won't do it. I think it too had auto discover and did attempt to imput the info I was trying to input but I think the error I kept getting was "unable to logon to exchange server"

I did look around Shaws website as well but the only info they have regarding exchange accounts is only provided for mobile devices.


I tried searching for a solution and came across a guy trying to do the same thing and Shaw support said it couldn't be done. Wish I had found this sooner but looks as though the limitation is in Shaw's Zimbra servers:

https://community.shaw.ca/thread/2046

Shaws lack of innovation is starting to annoy me.....

[Hack&Lube]

If you have Outlook 2007/2010 installed on your home PC, you should be able to use Outlook Anywhere or Exchange Web Services to connect to an Exchange account from home.

Active Sync is something else entirely. You want Shaw's email to work with Active Sync? Is Shaw mail via POP3 not working for your needs? You could add a Shaw POP3 account to your phone.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Hmm, interesting. I guess active sync is what I'm primarily after, yes. I figured that was one and the same being connected to an exchange account.

In a nutshell yes, I want all my devices synced.

Right now my iPad and Android phone are connected to exchange accounts, whatever happens on one happens on the other. I want the same thing happening with Outlook installed on my Win7 PC.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

Hmm, interesting. I guess active sync is what I'm primarily after, yes. I figured that was one and the same being connected to an exchange account.

In a nutshell yes, I want all my devices synced.

Right now my iPad and Android phone are connected to exchange accounts, whatever happens on one happens on the other. I want the same thing happening with Outlook installed on my Win7 PC.

Mobile devices are connected via active sync. Outlook on your computer has to connect to the exchange account via Outlook Anywhere or Exchange Web Services. As long as it's the same account, all actions should be synced.

They have to support this however, try using wm.shaw.ca as the Exchange server in Outlook.