Configuring your Outlook Exchange Account
- For more indepth instructions on using Microsoft Outlook click here.
- Creating a User Profile. If you share your system with another user, or need to check other users e-mail, you will need to set up an additional user profile. Follow the following steps:
- In Windows, click on the Start button.
- Click on Control Panel.
- Double click the Mail icon in the Control Panel.
- In the Mail window, click on Add.
- In the next window, type in a name for this profile (the user name, for example), then click OK.
- Verify that Add a new e-mail account is selected and then click Next.
- In the next window, click on the bullet next to Microsoft Exchange Server and click Next.
- Enter walnut as your Microsoft exchange server, uncheck use cached exchange mode and then type in your exchange account user name. It's whatever is before “@csuchico.edu.” Click Check Name.
- After you click on Check Name the Microsoft exchange server will change to ESCHE or ESCHE.csuchico.edu and your name will appear and be underlined as well (alternately, you may be prompted to enter a user name and password. If so, enter your user name as “chico\username”, and enter your Outlook password.). After this is done click Next.
- Click Finish
- Click on the mail window click Apply, then OK.
- Logging into Exchange. To log into Exchange, do the following:
- Double click the Microsoft Outlook icon on your desktop.
- At the login prompt, type in "chico\user name" and then your password and then click OK.
- You should now be logged into Exchange.


