Lancaster University

Outlook Web App (OWA) enables staff and postgraduates to access their exchange email, calendars and contacts though a web browser with no need for VPN connection. On this page you will find a collection of on-line demonstrations and text based tutorials from Microsoft Learning web sites on how to use OWA. Some videos take time to download. OWA can be accessed online at: https://exchange2010.lancs.ac.uk/owa

Basic Email

• Email: Common tasks
• Create a new message
• Reply to or forward a message
• Add an email signature

Using Email

• Checking your mailbox quota
• Flags and reminders on email
• Conversation view
• Search for an item
• Creating inbox rules
• Recover deleted items
• Using rules to automatically forward messages to another account
• Open another mailbox (that you have access to)

Calendar

• Introducing calendar
• Create appointment
• Modify appointment
• Save appointment
• Delete appointment
• Add a reminder to the appointment
• Appointment scheduling
• Create a meeting request
• Cancel a meeting
• Reply to or forward a meeting request
• Share a calendar

Contacts

• Contacts
• Create a contact
• Send a message to the contact from within the contact
• Creating a group email (distribution list)

Options

• Setting automatic replies – Out of Office assistant

More OWA Help and How To demo's and guides are available online from Microsoft. Very Useful. You will need sound on your computer for the video demo's.