Today's blog is all about Outlook mail! Like our old GroupWise email system, there are two ways to access Outlook email: through the web (Outlook Web App) or desktop software (Outlook 2016 or 2019). Here are guides for using:
2. Desktop client (Outlook 2016/ 2019)
3. Comparison of OWA and Outlook 2016/2019
Personally, I prefer using OWA but there are specific features that are only available or work better in one of the applications. Starting with OWA, easy access is available by going to the staff email link at the bottom of our school district homepage.
Here are some highly recommended settings to change in your account when using OWA:
1. The Outlook Web App default settings has all email correspondence set to "thread"or "conversation view." If you're constantly searching for emails that seem lost in a thread, go
to the Settings cog and turn off conversation view
2. At the bottom of the Settings, go to "View all Outlook settings" and in left tab "Mail" and "Compose and reply", choose "reply" rather than "reply all" as your default response settings.
3. Finally, meeting RSVPs show up into your inbox with the option to accept or decline the meeting. The meeting time then gets put into your Outlook calendar (it doesn't disappear as I thought happened the first time I clicked "yes") :
