Showing posts with label UIUC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UIUC. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Flowing Fix: I just moved to Exchange and now I cannot forward mail to another address like the older CITES service

Yes, it is true that Exchange 2010 does not support email forwarding option like the older CITES email; however, you can implement a work around using two email rules within Exchange that work just as well.

1) Log into your Exchange email account using the web portal.

2) Near the upper right of the Outlook:WebApp (just under your displayed name) click the "options" button which opens a drop down and select "Create an Inbox Rule"

3) Click "New" to add a new rule

4) Then, select the following for the drop downs (note after setting the second drop down, the a new form might appear which is fine, if not then you should select the "select people" button to open the new form):

5) Then, in the new "address book" window that opened, enter the "to" in the "Message Recipient:" field at the bottom of the form and click "OK" to commit. !! Be sure to enter your correct email address that you want all new incoming messages to be forwarded to !!

6) Back in the "New Inbox Rule" window, click the "More options" link and then make sure the stop rules after this option is "unchecked" as seen in the image below. Click the "Save" button when done.

7) You can now test the redirect by emailing yourself from another email account and the message should be redirected to that new email account.  However, you will note that a copy of the message still resides in the Exchange account.  In order to remove the message from the Exchange account [or have in marked as read, but not deleted] will require an second rule.

8) As in step 3, create a new rule, and [apply to all messages] as before but this time change the "do the following" selection to be "delete the message".  As before in step 6, you can uncheck the "stop processing more rules"  and optionally append the name of the rule with "delete" so you know what the rule is doing.  Then, click "SAVE"

9) Final important step, make sure to reorder the rules so that the DELETE rule is last (e.g, below the redirect rule) or the message will get deleted first and will NOT be able to be redirected. (See figure below for illustration)



 10) Enjoy your new redirected email settings

Thanks Roberto

Monday, August 15, 2011

Flowing Fix: iPhone on Campus?

For wireless internet access on Campus:
If you would like to connect to the wireless network on Campus, here is a link to the CITES website which has the directions
http://www.cites.illinois.edu/wireless/wpa2/iphone.html


Email Options 
Below are various options for email, for university mail Nils suggests using the University Exchange option (UIUC option 1 listed below) since the university is eventually going that way

For Google (here are two recommended options):
Google Option 1): If you want Google Gmail, Google Contacts and Google Calender (using Google's exchange server) on the iPhone here are instructions:
video to explain Google sync: http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/
the link to the instructions: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252 <http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252>


Google Option 2): If you want to use Google IMAP
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77702 <http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77702>

For University (two options):
UIUC option 1): (Recommended by Nils) If you get a University Exchange account (information about the exchange account: http://www.cites.illinois.edu/exchange/) information regarding the iPhone : http://www.cites.illinois.edu/exchange/iphone.html

UIUC option 2): Another method which doesn't use Exchange (but i do not think the reading of emails will be synced from computer to phone and vice versa)
http://yanyanxu.com/2009/01/14/how-to-setup-uiuc-cites-express-email-on-iphone-through-smtp-and-pop/
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Note: Apple now allows multiple exchange accounts on the iPhone
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A few recommended iPhone Applications:
Also, as I had mentioned here are some applications for the iphone.  You can either install them using the App Store icon on the iPhone or through iTunes installed on a computer (then syncing the phone). Either way you will need to create a itunes store account, but each of the two methods allow you to create an account if you don't have one.  (The App Store icon on the iPhone might be the easier way if you don't have itunes installed, but there are size limitation on apps u can download (i think 10mb limit) and it is slower than directly syncing with a computer,  if you want faster speed or need to install an app larger than 10mb you need to sync to the iTunes on the computer.)  Also, syncing you phone to the computer using itunes, automatically makes a backup of your phone, for that extra piece of mind.
Here is the list of some nice FREE Apps:
(if you use the App Store on the phone, you will have to search for the title of each application, if you have itunes installed on a computer you can click the hyperlinks below for each application)

Aroundme :  helps find various information (businesses, restaurants, etc.) that are around your location.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aroundme/id290051590?mt=8

Appbox Lite: has a couple of useful applications wrapped into one application, (including a digital level, unit converter, currency converter, and others)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/appbox-lite/id307094023?mt=8

Units:  it is nice unit converter application
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/units/id284574017?mt=8

Skype: just link the Skype for the computer
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skype/id304878510?mt=8

Google Earth: just link google earth for the computer (best to use this with wifi turned on, though 3G is ok)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-earth/id293622097?mt=8

GorillaCam: enable your camera to have time lapse, timer, and some other features
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gorillacam/id342972390?mt=8

 DropBox:  first I would click this link to see a short video which explains it https://www.dropbox.com/
 Think of this program as a wireless USB key which you can view and send files in a certain folder on your computer from the iPhone.  (In order to use this need to create an online account and install an application on your computer to get the full benefit) here is the itunes link http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8