Central Exchange for Calendar Only
Selecting the Central Exchange for Calendar Only option as your email and calendaring option from eID will forward all messages delivered to your Exchange mailbox to the e-mail address you specified to receive your First.Last@ColoState.EDU e-mail. This allows you to perform email functions using your organization's email systems while utilizing Central Exchange services for calendaring. In order to create and respond to Exchange Calendar requests, you will need to use the web interface (Outlook Web Access or OWA) for Exchange at https://mail.colostate.edu.
Note that until you follow the steps below, some non-Calendar e-mail may remain in your Exchange mailbox even though a copy of the email has been forwarded to your First.Last@ColoState.EDU address. To configure your Exchange account so that only Calendar-related items remain in your Exchange mailbox, use the process below to upload a special message rule to the Exchange server.
Importing Exchange rules for "Calendar-Only Users"
To upload the message rule to the Exchange server, follow the procedure below. The process does require that you connect to your Exchange account using Microsoft Outlook. To configure Outlook, refer to the instructions for setting up Outlook or contact your local IT support staff.
- Download the rules file.
- Unzip this file to a location on your hard disk. The file is called
outlook_calendar_only_rules.rwz - Open Outlook and configure it to connect to your mailbox - your IT department may have a computer with Outlook installed specifically for this process.
- Once Outlook is connected to your mailbox, click on "Tools" and "Rules and Alerts..."
- Select the "Options" button
- Click on the "Import Rules" button and navigate to the location where you saved the rules file.
- Once the rules have been imported, click "OK" to close the Rules and Alerts configuration box.
- You have now configured your Exchange mailbox to keep only meeting-related messages in your inbox.
