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Configuring Outlook 2007 for your Outlook Live Account

Before you can connect to your e-mail for the first time with Outlook 2007, you need to complete your account registration with Windows Live. To do this, sign in to your account by browsing to https://outlook.com, click Sign in, and then enter your user name and password to access your e-mail account. When your Windows Live account registration is complete, sign out.

1. Close Outlook 2007 if it's open.
2. In Control Panel, click Mail.

In Windows XP

1. Click Start > Control Panel > User Accounts > Mail. (In Classic view, double-click Mail.)

In Windows Vista

1. Click Start > Control Panel.
2. In the 32-bit edition of Windows Vista, click User Accounts (or User Accounts and Family Safety) > Mail. In the 64-bit edition of Windows Vista, select Additional Options > View 32-bit Control Panel Items, and then double-click Mail. (In Classic view, double-click Mail.)

3. In the Mail Setup dialog box, click Show Profiles > Add.

4. Type a name for the profile and then click OK. (As a best practice, give the profile a name that identifies it as the profile for your account on Outlook.com.
5. When the Add New E-Mail Account dialog box opens, enter
   
   
   
   your name: Full Name
   e-mail address: yourusername@live.wharton.upenn.edu
   Wharton password
   and then click Next.
   
   
6. When the login box appears type your full Wharton email address yourusername@wharton.upenn.edu into the Username box then enter your Wharton password.
   
   
   
   
7. Outlook 2007 will display a message that asks you to allow a Web site to automatically set up your account. The program runs auto-setup periodically. If you don't want to see this message every time auto-setup runs, select Don't ask me about this website again, and then click Allow.

Outlook 2007 will automatically set up the account. You'll be asked for your user name and password before Outlook 2007 can connect to your account. Make sure you enter your full e-mail address (for example, tony@contoso.com) as your user name. You may be prompted to enter your user name and password several times before you connect.