Technical Note - Accessing VUW Calendars via Office365
Summary
Staff can access their own and other VUW staff calendars via Office 365 on the Web.Details
To access calendars go tohttp://outlook.com/vuw.ac.nz
and login with your University level staff username and password.
Open the app launcher tool in the top left of your Outlook on the web window as shown below.
![applauncher.png applauncher.png](/foswiki/pub/Support/TechNoteAccessingVUWCalendars/applauncher.png)
![calendar select.png calendar select.png](/foswiki/pub/Support/TechNoteAccessingVUWCalendars/calendar_select.png)
Other Calendars
To view the calendar of some other staff member, right-click on the Other calendars item in the side bar and select Open calendar![calendar open.png calendar open.png](/foswiki/pub/Support/TechNoteAccessingVUWCalendars/calendar_open.png)
![opencalendar.png opencalendar.png](/foswiki/pub/Support/TechNoteAccessingVUWCalendars/opencalendar.png)
Using Other Applications
The ITS pages have some useful information on configuring various clients. See:http://www.victoria.ac.nz/its/staff-services/self-help/faq-email/configure-my-mail/ They talk in terms of mail clients but either calendar is part of a combined mail/calendar client or a calendar client is configured similarly. The important things to know are:
- server is outlook.office365.com
- your e-mail address is: firstname.lastname@vuw.ac.nz (e.g., fred.bloggs@vuw.ac.nz) N.B. NOT "@ecs."
- your username is: VUWuserID@staff.vuw.ac.nz (e.g., bloggsfr@staff.vuw.ac.nz) N.B. "@staff."
- your password is your VUWuserID password
Thunderbird
Specifically to configure thunderbird you need the lightning calendar extension and the Exchange EWS Provider add-on (available from https://github.com/ExchangeCalendar/exchangecalendar/releases) Download the latest for your thunderbird version, even if it's a alpha or beta. Settings which should allow you to connect are:- Server URL: https://outlook.office365.com/ews/exchange.asmx
- Primary email address: firstname.lastname@vuw.ac.nz
- Username: VUWuserID@staff.vuw.ac.nz
- Domain name: [leave empty]
- Share Folder Id: [leave empty]
- Folder base: [leave at the default, "Calendar folder"]
- Path below folder base: [leave at the default, "/"]