This guide is intended for individuals who may be unfamiliar with Microsoft Outlook. The more advanced features of Outlook are not included. The guide begins by looking at different ways to view the Outlook screen. Other topics covered include: sending and receiving e-mail, contacts, calendars, saving and storing e-mail and using the Out of Office Assistant.

New e-mail service at NUI, Galway
A new e-mail service for staff, based on the industry-leading Exchange platform from Microsoft, is currently at pilot stage. This service will be made available to all staff and research post-graduates from early in 2006, and in addition to providing staff with a reliable and secure e-mail service, it will offer a number of value-added features including calendar-sharing, nominated delegate access to email and calendars, meeting notices, a Global Address Book containing contact details for University staff, and access from certain mobile devices including BlackBerrys.

In conjunction with the core Exchange based service on campus, a web-based version of MS Outlook, Outlook Web Access (OWA), will allow staff to check and read their e-mail and calendar from any computer with internet access. From January 1 st 2006 all new staff joining the University will be provided with Exchange based e-mail. Subsequently, all current staff will be migrated onto the new service on a phased basis. As part of the migration service, we will facilitate the migration of your existing mail on Bodkin onto the new Exchange server. More details of the migration schedule for existing staff will be published on our website over the coming months.

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