Staff E-mail: Outlook 2007
Microsoft Outlook 2007 is the new e-mail facility for staff supported by Microsoft Exchange 2007.
It provides an integrated solution for managing your emails and your time. You will find new features such as the To-Do Bar, The Ribbon, The Office Button and The Calendar overlay mode etc...
Some Frequently Asked Questions and links to helpful information are available on this web page.
Frequently asked questions
(under Section Headings)
General
- Q002 - Is there a training manual available?
- Q003 - How can I see my Contacts in my address list drop down?
- Q007 - Is there a Quota set on my mailbox?
- Q060 - How do I check my mailbox size?
- Q008 - How do I manage my mailbox to avoid reaching the Quota limit?
- Q024 - Can I access my mailbox from another users PC?
- Q027 - What is Archiving and what should my Archive area be used for?
- Q041 - My sent items keep filling up, can I archive them more often?
- Q028 - I've deleted a mail / folder by mistake, can I get it back?
- Q032 - Outlook versus OWA
- Q037 - Why shouldn't I use Personal Folders to manage my emails?
- Q067 - Compacting personal folders (.pst files) on H drive
- Q026 - How do I perform an Advanced Search in Outlook 2007?
- Q038 - Accessing the Staff E-mail using an Apple Mac
- Q015 - Outlook 2007 is not installed on my UWE PC / Laptop?
Outlook 2007
- Q012 - How do I move all emails tagged as [SPAM] to a SPAM folder?
- Q029 - I have a laptop. How do I set up Outlook so that I can use it when I am not connected to the network?
- Q039 - How do I allow my colleague to send emails on my behalf?
- Q042 - How do I organise the meeting?
- Q048 - How do I create a Signature?
- Q054 - How do I use multiple signatures?
- Q049 - How do I create an email Template?
- Q045 - How do I book an Exchange Resource e.g. a meeting room?
- Q063 - My Personal Folders/Archive Folders are missing, how do I get them back?
- Q062 - How can I sort my emails in different ways?
- Q066 - How do I Bcc recipients on an email?
Outlook Web Access
- Q014 - What is Outlook Web Access (OWA)?
- Q050 - How do I open another mailbox using Outlook Web Access 2007?
Configuration
- Q017 - How do I access my email from Work?
- Q018 - How do I access my email from Home?
- Q022 - How do I set up my 'Out of Office' reply?
- Q023 - How do I set up Delivery/Read receipts in Outlook?
- Q044 - How can I check my mail from home using Outlook Express?
- Q030 - How to configure Outlook Anywhere?
Address Books
- Q020 - How do I find a UWE member of staff's email address?
- Q021 - How can I identify who is the person I want when more than one person has the same name?
- Q052 - What do I do if Outlook keeps suggesting the wrong person to me?
- Q043 - How do you set up the address book so that it only searches for staff addresses?
- Q057 - My Outlook Address Book details are incorrect. How do I change them?
- Q058 - How do I send emails to groups of staff?
- Q064 - How do I send emails to groups of students?
Sharing folders and mailboxes
- Q055 - Overview of permissions and sharing in Outlook
- Q036 - How do I share one of my folders (e.g. my calendar) with my colleagues?
- Q033 - How do I open my colleague's folder (e.g. Calendar)?
- Q051 - How do I allow someone else to open my mailbox?
- Q034 - How do I allow someone else access to several of my folders and sub folders?
- Q035 - How do I open someone else's mailbox in my Outlook?
- Q040 - How do I send an email on someone else's behalf?
- Q056 - Creating Outlook profiles for managing multiple mailboxes
Generic Email Accounts
- Q069 - How to create a new generic email acount?
- Q070 - How can I access a generic account from outside UWE?
- Q059 - Overview of generic email accounts in Outlook/Exchange
- Q046 - Instructions for custodians of generic email accounts
- Q047 - How do I use a generic account in Outlook?
- Q053 - How do I access a generic mailbox using Outlook Web Access?
- Q061 - Why do my Sent Items go into the wrong Sent Items folder?
- Q065 - How do I set up a Rule on a generic account?

