How to configure the Hotmail in Outlook

Setup your Hotmail account in Outlook

As Hotmail, Outlook is created by Microsoft; like other Microsoft email programs (e.g. Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail), Outlook can connect to your Hotmail account (this is not the case, at least not without more or less legal tweaks, with other email programs.)

To add a new email account in Outlook 2003, go to Tools > E-mail Accounts. The E-mail Accounts dialog will open: from there, select "Add a new e-mail account" and click Next.

On the next screen, click Add.

The E-mail Accounts wizard will now present you with a list of email account types to choose from: for Hotmail, select HTTP and click Next.

From the Server Information dropdown, pick Hotmail as the HTTP Mail Service Provider. Outlook will automatically know how to "talk" with Hotmail's mail servers. (Hotmail's mail server settings are currently not working out of the box with non-Microsoft email clients.)

Hotmail Account Settings for Outlook

Under Your Name, enter the name you would like displayed when you send emails from your Hotmail account. Under E-mail Address, type your Hotmail email address in the form userName@hotmail.com. Under the email account's Logon Information, enter again your Hotmail email address and your Hotmail password.

Make sure that the "Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)" checkbox is unchecked (it is by default).

If you want Outlook to remember your Hotmail password, so that you do not have to provide it whenever you check your Hotmail account, make sure that the "Remember password" checkbox is checked; if you are using Outlook to access Hotmail from a work computer, you may want to uncheck that checkbox.
Click Next, and then Finish: congratulations, you have setup Hotmail in Outlook!

Checking your Hotmail emails from Outlook

Notice that a new Hotmail inbox has now appeared in Outlook: all emails received from your Hotmail account will automatically be stored in the dedicated Hotmail inbox. Likewise, a copy of any email you send from Outlook with your Hotmail account will be stored in the Sent Items folder under Hotmail.

Sending emails from Outlook using your Hotmail account

If you have setup multiple email accounts in Outlook, aside from Hotmail, Outlook lets you pick from which email account to send the new email you are composing. From the main toolbar of the new email window, click Account, and a menu will unfold, listing all the email accounts available to Outlook: pick the account you want to send the email from, and Outlook will take care of the rest.
When you have multiple email accounts setup in Outlook and reply to an email, Outlook will automatically use the email account to which this email was sent. Let's say that you have setup in Outlook both your professional email account and your Hotmail account: if your friend emails you at your Hotmail account, and you reply from Outlook, Outlook will automatically use your Hotmail account to reply to that email, even if your default email account happens to be your professional email account.
If you only have a Hotmail email account setup in Outlook, this will be your default email account, and the one Outlook always uses when sending emails - no need to worry about picking the email account Outlook will use!

How to configure the Yahoomail in Outlook

Setup your Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook

Unlike Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail offers an email service that uses standard email protocol, namely "POP3" - since POP3 is one of the most popular ways to check emails from an email client, this means that you should be able to setup Yahoo! Mail in any email program.

To add a new email account in Outlook 2003, go to Tools > E-mail Accounts. The E-mail Accounts dialog will open: from there, select "Add a new e-mail account" and click Next.

On the next screen, click Add.

The E-mail Accounts wizard now presents you with a listing of possible email account types: for Yahoo! Mail, select POP3 and click Next.

Yahoo! Mail Account Settings for Outlook

The Outlook Email Account wizard's next screen will collect all the account information needed to connect Outlook to Yahoo! Mail:

Under Your Name, type your name as you would like it to appear when you send emails from Outlook using your Yahoo! Mail account. Enter your full Yahoo! Mail email address in the E-mail Address field.
Under Logon Information, enter your full Yahoo! Mail email address under User Name (in the form "userName@yahoo.com"), and your Yahoo! Mail password in Outlook's Password field.
By default, the Remember password checkbox is checked: this will ensure that you do not have to type your Yahoo! Mail password whenever you try to send or receive Yahoo! emails from Outlook. Make sure that the other checkbox, "Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)", is unchecked.

Yahoo! Mail Server Settings for Outlook

As part of the setup to enable Outlook to connect to the Yahoo! Mail service, enter the following information as mail server settings:

- Type  plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com  under Incoming mail server (POP3), and
- Type  plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com  as Outgoing mail server (SMTP) value.


Now click on the More Settings button: the Internet E-mail Settings dialog will open.
Select the Outgoing Server tab, and check the checkbox labeled "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication".


Now select the Advanced tab: check the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) checkbox, and type 995 under Incoming Server (POP3). Also check the second checkbox below, and type 465 under Outgoing server (SMTP). Right now, your Yahoo! Mail Server Port Numbers section should look just like this:

Optionally leave a copy of Yahoo! emails on the server

The final option of this tab allows Outlook to leave the email messages on the Yahoo! Mail server; this checkbox is unchecked by default. We recommend you check it, so that you can read your Yahoo! emails from Outlook or a web browser without worrying about emails being unavailable for having been downloaded from another location.

Checking your Yahoo! Mail emails from Outlook

You have successfully setup Yahoo! Mail in Outlook! Your Yahoo emails are now being downloaded in your regular Outlook inbox.

If you have setup email accounts in Outlook in addition to Yahoo! Mail, Outlook lets you pick from which email account to send the new email you are composing. From the main toolbar of the new email window, click Account, and a menu will unfold, listing all the email accounts available to Outlook: pick the account you want to send the email from, and Outlook will take care of the rest.
When you have multiple email accounts setup in Outlook and reply to an email, Outlook will automatically use the email account to which this email was sent. Let's say that you have setup in Outlook both your professional email account and your Yahoo! Mail account: if your friend emails you at your Yahoo! Mail account, and you reply from Outlook, Outlook will automatically use your Yahoo! account to reply to that email, even if your default email account happens to be your professional email account.
If you only have a Yahoo! Mail email account setup in Outlook, this will be your default email account, and the one Outlook always uses when sending emails - no need to worry about picking the email account Outlook will use!

How to configure the Gmail in Outlook 2003

Step 1: Log in to your gmail account

if you dont have gmail account, click here then click on SIgn up for Gmail

Step 2: On your Gmail Click on Settings(A) then Forwarding and POP/IMAP(B) then Click enable POP for all mail(C) then click Save

Step 3: Open Outlook 2003

Open outlook 2003 by clicking on START, then PROGRAMS then MICROSOFT then MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2003

Step 4: Click on Tools(A) then E-mail Accounts(B)

Step 5: Select Add new e-mail account(A) then click next(B)

Step 6: Select POP3 then click next

Step 6: On label A, input yourname and e-mail address. On label B, input your email password. On label C, copy what is being type on the image. Click on Mor

Step 7: Click on Outgoing Server and then check the My outgoing SMTP requires authentication as image shown

Step 8: On more settings click on Advanced(A) then check the two checkbox as image shown then click Ok(B)

Step 9: Click on test Account setting and wait. there is no error you are now done configuring the outlook... Have fun...

after configuring click on SEND AND RECIEVED on the standard toolbar of your oultook 2003.

Remove User Accounts from the Login Screen in Windows XP

Remove User Accounts from the Login Screen in Windows XP

So you login to your computer every single day, but there’s more than one account to choose from… either because you got the computer from somebody else, or some software package added a user account that you really don’t want to see. So how do we hide that other account from the login screen?
There’s a simple registry hack that you can do to hide accounts from the login screen, or you could alternatively delete the user account if you really don’t need it. Both methods are listed below.

Manual Registry Hack
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu Run box, and then navigate down to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\
    CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

On the right-hand side you’ll see a list of keys that correspond to user accounts that are considered “Special” and are not to be shown on the login screen.

Create a new DWORD value with the same name as the user name that you want to hide. You’ll note that the actual username in the illustration was “OtherPerson” and not the description that was shown on the login screen.
To unhide the account, simply delete the registry key that you created.

The next time you log off you’ll see that the other account is gone.
Hide User Account with Tweak UI
You can also use the Microsoft Tweak UI PowerToy to do the same thing. (Thanks to Gustav for reminding me to include this)

Just click on the Logon key in the left hand side, and then uncheck the box for “Show <username> on Welcome screen”
Login to Hidden Account
You can still login to the account even though it’s not shown… You’ll just have to use a little trick.
At the login screen, just hit the Ctrl+Alt+Delete combination twice in a row, and you’ll be presented with the old-school login screen, where you have to manually enter the username.

Type the name and password of the other user, and login.
Delete User Account
Alternatively you can always delete the user account if you are absolutely sure that you don’t need that user account anymore. Right-click on “My Computer” and choose “Manage”

Navigate down through “Local Users and Groups” and then Users, and then locate the username in the list that you’d like to get rid of.

Just right-click and choose Delete. Note that this step cannot be reversed, so make sure you only delete accounts you really really don’t want anymore. If you are unsure, you can just hide them using the first option above.

Create and customize user accounts

 

•	Create a user account for each person who uses your computer.
•	Change the default display pictures or add passwords for the accounts.
•	After you have set up the user accounts, you can show everyone who uses your computer how to switch between user accounts.

How to add user accounts

To set up user accounts

1.	Log on to your computer as an administrator. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.	Under Pick a category, click User Accounts.
3.	Under Pick a task, click Create a new account.
4.	In the User Accounts wizard, on the Name the new account page, type the name for the user. You can use the person's full name, first name, or a nickname. Then click Next.
5.	The User Accounts wizard displays the Pick an account type page. Click Limited, and then click Create Account.
6.	To create another account, return to step 3.

Note: In these steps, you created a limited account. Limited accounts offer better security than Computer administrator accounts. However, limited accounts cannot make system-wide changes or install some applications. If you need to make changes to your system, log on with the administrator account you used to create the new accounts.
Now that you have added new user accounts, you can change the default display pictures or create passwords for the accounts.

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How to choose pictures or create passwords for user accounts

By default, accounts have standard pictures but do not have passwords. You can add your own picture for each account, which can make it easier and more fun for children—and adults—to identify their accounts. To prevent other users from accessing an account, create a password.
To either choose a picture or create a password

1.	Log on to your computer as an administrator. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.	Under Pick a category, click User Accounts.
3.	Under or pick an account to change, click the account for which you want to choose a picture or create a password.
4.	To choose a custom picture • a. Click Change the picture. • b. Click Browse for more pictures. • c. Click the picture you want to display for that account, and then click Open. Windows XP will display the picture you select on the logon screen.
5.	To create a password to prevent other people from using an account • a. Click Create a password. • b. On the Create a password page, type the password twice. Optionally, type a password hint. Then click Create Password.
6.	To choose pictures or create passwords for other accounts, return to step 3.

How to install Active Directory on Windows 2003

Before you start following this article you must be aware this is simply a lab setup and you need to assign relevant ip address, hostnames & domain names which are relavant to your enviroment / organisation.

I will be using the following:

Hostname=DC-LAB
IP address=172.16.7.200
Subnet Mask=255.255.0.0
Domain name=LAB.COM
Partition: NTFS ( 8 GB )
The Virtual machine used has been installed as of date when this article was written with a default install of Windows 2003 R2 SP2 + all MS critical updates.
Step 1: Start Windows :)


Step 2:  Logon to Windows :)



Step 3: Go to the command prompt. start > run > cmd > click ok

Ensure the hostname is configured correctly. This can be changed at a later date once it has been made a DC but I personally recommend NOT doing so. Get it right the first time is always recommended. The ip address, subnet mask, DG & DNS has been set correctly according to your network ip addressing plan.

Oops did I say "Plan" Yes I did, make sure you plan your AD / Network before you get all excited and dive into installing your domain or else get ready for some horrible nightmares.
I have come across all sorts of networks where so called :) IT administrators have assigned public ip address on the LAN. This should only be done if the ISP has assigned a range to your office and the network design has a need for the same. Specifically the networks I refer to have NOT been assigned any public ip's from there ISP and they have taken it upon themselves to use any numbers they liked :) & had all sorts of problems with there network or dns lookups. Some are still stuck with these problems as there networks have grown beyond control and extremely complex & simply to implement a change management & rectify this mistake would cost them a lot more than they ever imagined.

So Plan! Plan! Plan! If unsure take some professional advice.


Step 4: Running DCPROMO.EXE

This can be done in two ways.
      a. Either run Manage Your Server Wizard
      b. Run dcpromo.exe from the run menu. ( we will use this option.)




The above screen shot "Manage you Server" is not an additional component it is pre installed with windows 2003 and it appears under Start > Programs > Administrative tools > Manage You Server.




Step 5:  The DCPROMO Wizard.




1. If you have not read any notes or seem unclear and still have doubts click on "Active Directory Help" when you see the first window shown above.

2. If you are comfortable with the information you have in hand go to the next step.

3. Click next.



4. Select "Domain controller for a new domain".



5. Select "Domain in a new Forest"



6. Select "Install and configure DNS server on this computer"
Note: This will prompt you later on in the wizard to copy some files for DNS so keep your Windows 2003 media in hand.



7. Enter your Active Directory domain name here click next.



8. Accept the domain NETBIOS name.
(NetBIOS names provides for down-level compatibility.)



9. Click next.
Note: If your AD has been planned and the growth factor has been taken into account I would recommend to plan these locations right from the begining. Logs and database should be on a different partition. This will improve performance.



10. Click next.



11. Click next.



12. Type a password (record this password part of your secure server documentation) click next.
Note: This password does not need to be the same as your domain administrator password. To read more regarding this topic click on the "AD help link" on the same window.


13. View the Summary than click next.



14. Once you click next you will see a series of task performed by the wizard and it will start preparing AD.







15. You than be prompted for Windows 2003 SP2 cd as indicated in point 6 earlier in this article.



16. Insert the cd in your cd rom drive click next. The wizard will start copying the required files for DNS and configured DNS on your behalf.



17. The wizard completes successfully click finish.



18. Click restart now.