Once you select Configure Manually, it will bring up another window to enter your password, as shown below: You can select either “Sign In” or “Configure Manually.” In this case, we will choose the latter. Once you have entered in the information, you can click Sign In, which will open another window as shown below: Select “Microsoft Exchange” in the list and a new window will appear prompting you for the following: Your existing accounts will be on the left and you have the option on the right to choose what you want: To get to accounts, click Mail next to the Apple, and from the drop-down, click on accounts or add account, whichever you prefer.Ī new window will open as shown below. You will notice that the ribbon is different from Outlook. Once it launches, you should see a view similar to the one below: When you add your Apple account to your Mac, it normally sets up your.
If you navigate to applications again either in Finder or the dock, you can click on the mail icon as shown below:ĭouble-click on the icon to launch Mail.
Now, let’s look at setting up an account with Mac Mail. Once all the above is entered, you can click on Add Account, and you should be on your way.
Once the setup is done, you will be asked to move the ISO or DMG file to the trash.Īfter that, you can open up applications from Finder or from your dock and open it. The setup will prompt you for your Mac credentials to perform the installation and then will take a couple of minutes to complete it.
First of all, you need to download the ISO or DMG file for the version you have purchased or have access to and launch it. Let’s start with setting up an email account using the Microsoft Office suite, and we will then move onto Mac Mail. I did not list Office 2010 or Office 2013 as they are at end-of-life. RPC is used for the older clients, and the new way of connecting to Exchange 2016 is using MAPI, which has to be configured on the Exchange end, and you need clients that support it. In Microsoft Office, whether you are running Office 2016, Office 2019, or the Microsoft 365 edition, you have a few options to choose from. Yes, that is correct, Mac uses EWS for connectivity compared to a Windows machine that will use MAPI or RPC, depending on the version they are running.
We will go into a technical session on how to set up your accounts for both on Exchange 2016 and show you how simple it is.įirst, when you set up an account either on Mac Mail or Outlook, you will be making use of EWS in Exchange 2016. Still, many prefer using what comes with the machine, and others stick by Microsoft Office - and we not here to compare that in this article. Obviously, with Microsoft Outlook, you can do more than with the native Mac Mail. Mac Mail has been around a long time, but so has Microsoft Outlook for Mac.