Images/Image/2675' alt='How To Connect To Microsoft Exchange Server Outlook' title='How To Connect To Microsoft Exchange Server Outlook' />Microsoft Outlook Wikipedia. Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note taking, journal, and web browsing. It can be used as a stand alone application, or can work with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Share. Point Server for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, Exchange public folders, Share. Point lists, and meeting schedules. Microsoft has also released mobile applications for most mobile platforms, including i. OS and Android. Developers can also create their own custom software that works with Outlook and Office components using Microsoft Visual Studio. In addition, Windows Phone devices can synchronize almost all Outlook data to Outlook Mobile. Outlook. com claims to have more than 4. VersionseditMicrosoft Outlook has replaced Microsofts previous scheduling and mail program, Schedule and Exchange Client. Versions of Microsoft Outlook include Name. Version Number5Release Date6Notes. Outlook for MS DOS Bundled with Exchange Server 5. Outlook for Windows 3. The Microsoft Exchange Administrator has made a change that requires you quit and restart Outlook. Outlook may display a security alert with certificate warning messages after installing Exchange Server 2016 into your environment. Bundled with Exchange Server 5. Outlook for Macintosh Bundled with Exchange Server 5. Outlook 9. 78. 0. January 1. 6, 1. 99. Included in Office 9. Exchange Server 5. How To Connect To Microsoft Exchange Server Outlook' title='How To Connect To Microsoft Exchange Server Outlook' />Outlook 9. June 2. 1, 1. 99. Freely distributed with books and magazines for coping with newest Internet standard such as HTML mail. Outlook 9. Active Setup which also installed Internet Explorer 4. Outlook 2. June 2. Included in Office 2. Exchange 2. 00. 0 Server. Outlook 2. 00. 21. May 3. 1, 2. 00. 1Included in Office XPOffice Outlook 2. November 2. 0, 2. Included in Office 2. Standard Edition for Students and Teachers and bundled with Exchange Server 2. Office Outlook 2. January 2. 7, 2. 00. Included in Office 2. Office Home and Student edition. Outlook 2. 01. 01. July 1. 5, 2. 01. Included in Office 2. Home and Business, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus. Outlook 2. 01. 1 for Mac. October 2. 6, 2. 01. Included in Office for Mac 2. Home and Business. Eagle Strike Complete The Square. Outlook 2. 01. 31. January 2. 9, 2. 01. Included in Office 2. Home Student edition. Outlook for Mac. 15. October 3. 1, 2. 01. How To Connect To Microsoft Exchange Server Outlook' title='How To Connect To Microsoft Exchange Server Outlook' />Included in Office 3. Outlook for Phones Tablets. Included in Office 3. Includes IOS Apple OS and Android Google OS Support. Outlook 2. 01. 61. September 2. 2, 2. Included in Office 3. Outlook 9. 8 and Outlook 2. Internet Mail Only or IMO mode A lighter application mode with specific emphasis on POP3 accounts and IMAP accounts and including a lightweight Fax application. Corporate Workgroup or CW mode A full MAPI client with specific emphasis on Microsoft Exchange accounts. Microsoft WindowseditOutlook 2. Outlook 2. 00. 7 was available in retail stores at the end of January 2. Features that debuted in Outlook 2. Office Fluent ribbon user interface though not for the main windowTo Do bar added to the shell UI that shows a snapshot of the users upcoming appointments and active tasks for better time and project management, and provides navigation entry points into calendar e. Date Navigator, clicking on daydate names in appointments areaChanged calendar views that display the tasks due below each day on the week view and supports overlaying multiple calendars. Send your calendar information with calendar snapshots, which creates an HTML representation of your calendar so you can share this information with anyone. Ability to publish calendars in Internet Calendar format to Microsoft Office Online or to a Web. DAV server. Send text and picture messages from Outlook with Outlook Mobile Service to a mobile phone. Forward Outlook email messages, contacts, appointments, and tasks as text messages. Automatically send email messages, reminders, and your daily calendar as text messages to a mobile phone Outlook SMS Service Provider. Integrated RSS aggregatorInstant Search through a context indexer based search engine with Windows Desktop Search. Outlook includes a Windows Side. Show Calendar Gadget. Enhanced integration with Microsoft Office Share. Point Portal Server. New programmability features1. Preview Handler extension for previewing email attachment including reading pane without leaving Outlook. Ability to add a picture or company logo to a contact or electronic business card1. Color Categories give you an easy, visual way to distinguish any type of information from one another, so its easy to organize your data and search your information. Save as PDF or XPSDiscontinuation of Common User Access cut and paste support. Improved anti phishing filters. Office Outlook 2. Email Postmark is designed to make it very time consuming to send email. This makes it technologically detrimental for users to send mass email with Outlook, prompting spammers to use other e mail clients. Information Rights Management IRM restricts andor expires distribution of email using Windows Server 2. Windows Rights Management Services RMSManaged policy compliance features integration with Exchange Server 2. Now renders HTML formatted e mails using Microsoft Word instead of Internet Explorer making the rendering less standards compliant, but more in line with what a user sees when composing e mail using WordOutlook 2. Features that debuted in Outlook 2. Ribbon interface in all views1. Contact cards to show pop up details of all message participants from GAL or user contact records. Grouping of conversations improved includes messages from all folders, and optionally from separate accounts. Improved To Do bar, for example showing how many appointments are not shown when space is limitedPeople Pane and Social Networking features1. IMAP improvements Specify an IMAP folder for deleted items necessary to properly support Google hosted email accounts. Outlook 2. 01. 3editFeatures that debuted in Outlook 2. January 2. 9, 2. 01. Attachment reminder. Exchange Active. SyncEASAdd in resiliency. Cached Exchange mode improvements. IMAP improvements. Outlook data file. People hub. Startup performance improvements. Outlook 2. 01. 6editFeatures that debuted in Outlook 2. Attachment link to cloud resource. Groups redesign. Search cloud. Clutter Folder. Email Address Internationalization. MacintosheditMicrosoft also released several versions of Outlook for classic Mac OS, though it was only for use with Exchange servers. It was not provided as a component of Microsoft Office for Mac, but instead made available to users from administrators or by download. The final version was Outlook for Mac 2. Outlook 2. 00. 0 and 2. Exchange users. Microsoft Entourage was introduced as an Outlook like application for Mac OS in Office 2. Exchange connectivity. Partial support for Exchange server became available natively in Mac OS X with Entourage 2. Service Pack 2. Entourage is not directly equivalent to Outlook in terms of design or operation rather, it is a distinct application which has several overlapping features including Exchange client capabilities. Somewhat improved Exchange support was added in Entourage 2. Web Services Edition. Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2. Entourage was replaced by Outlook for Mac 2. Outlook for Windows than Entourage offered. It is the first native version of Outlook for mac. OS. Outlook 2. 01. Mac OS Xs Sync Services only for contacts, not events, tasks or notes. It also does not have a Project Manager equivalent to that in Entourage. Outlook Versions Supported by Exchange 2. Online Tech. Net Articles United States EnglishThis Exchange Tech. Net Wiki page lists the Outlook client versions supported by Exchange 2. Exchange 2. 01. 0 and Exchange Online BPOS respectively. Update. The Exchange Server supportability matrix in the Microsoft Tech. Net documentation has now been updated to included Outlook versions and the Exchange Server version they are supported. You can find it here. Exchange Server 2. The following Outlook client versions are fully supported by Exchange server 2. Please bear in mind though, theres a difference between what is supported and what might be compatible with Exchange 2. All of the Outlook versions listed below have been thoroughly tested by the Exchange Product group. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. RTM and later. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. RTM and later. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. RTM and later. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. Please note, while Exchange RTM has been tested, RTM builds for Exchange are no longer supported. Per the Lifecycle Support Policy, only Exchange 2. SP3 is supported at this time. For additional details, see https support. Exchange2. 0Server2. FilterFilter. NONote. When using Outlook 2. Exchange 2. 00. 7 or 2. This is because Outlook 2. OAB. For more information see Microsoft KB article. When you use Outlook with an Exchange 2. Exchange 2. 00. 7, and you receive an error message. Exchange Server 2. The following Outlook client versions are fully supported by Exchange server 2. Please bear in mind theres a difference between what is supported and what might be compatible with Exchange 2. All of the Outlook versions listed below have been thoroughly tested by the Exchange Product group. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. RTM and later. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. RTM and later. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. Service Pack 2 and later. Please note, while Exchange RTM has been tested, RTM builds for Exchange are no longer supported. Per the Lifecycle Support Policy, only Exchange 2. SP3 is supported at this time. For additional details, see. Exchange2. 0Server2. FilterFilter. NONote. When using Outlook 2. Exchange 2. 00. 7 or 2. This is because Outlook 2. OAB. For more information see Microsoft KB article. When you use Outlook with an Exchange 2. Exchange 2. 00. 7, and you receive an error message. In addition, you should be aware of the following issues and the resolution to each, when using Outlook 2. Exchange 2. 01. 0 mailbox Exchange Server 2. The following Outlook client versions are fully supported by Exchange server 2. Please bear in mind theres a difference between what is supported and what might be compatible with Exchange 2. All of the Outlook versions listed below have been thoroughly tested by the Exchange Product group Please note, each CU for Exchange 2. CU.   For example, if CU1 is released on 31 and CU2 is released on 61, CU1 support will end on 91. Reference links http technet. Exchange Online BPOSThe following Outlook client versions are fully supported by Exchange Online BPOS. Please bear in mind theres a difference between what is supported and what might be compatible with Exchange 2. All of the Outlook versions listed below have been thoroughly tested by the Exchange Product group. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. RTM and later. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. RTM and later. Microsoft Office Outlook 2. Service Pack 2 and later Freebusy and Offline Address Book support requires the. Microsoft Exchange Online Connector for Office Outlook 2. Exchange Online solution Note Exchange Online BPOS is based on Exchange Server 2. Exchange 2. 01. 0 later this calendar year 2. Exchange Online Office. Exchange 2. 01. 0. See Also. Other Languages. This article is also available the following languages.