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Connecting Via VPN
Windows XP
1. Log on to the computer
2. Click on the Start button.
Then select Control Panel.
3. Double click on Network
Connections.
4. Double Click on New Connection
Wizard and click Next.
5. If you have never set up a new
connection, the following Location Information screen may display,
enter your area code in the appropriate window, and click OK. If
this screen does not display, move on to step 6.
6. Select “Connect to the network
at my workplace”. Click Next.
7. Select “Virtual Private Network
Connection” then click “Next”.
8. Type UHV in the Company Name
window and click “Next”
9. Enter rras.uhv.edu in the window
for Host name or IP address.
10. User's Choice is
selected and click “Next”. (This screen may not display. Move on
to the next step in that case)
11. Type UHV in the space
provided. Make sure the “Add a short cut to my desktop” is
checked and click Finish.
12. Return to your desktop. The
following icon will be there. Double click on it.
13. Return to your desktop.
Double click on the UHV icon.
14. Input your user name including
the “@uhv.edu” and the password you use to log on to you computer
on campus. DO NOT check the “Save Password” box. Click Connect.
The following window will appear
and change a couple of times.
Once the connection is established
you the following bubble will pop up.
15. Now you are logged on and
ready to map your drives. Click on the Start button, then right
click on My Computer.
16. You will get the following
screen. “Left” click on Map Network Drive.
17. In the drive window, select
the down arrow and then the M: drive.
In the “folder” window, type in
\\emerald.uhv.edu\username if you are staff. Faculty will type in
\\sapphire.uhv.edu\username
Follow steps
19, 20 and 21 to map P, Q and any other drives you need.
P: drive is
mapped to
\\emerald.uhv.edu\pub
Q: is mapped to departmental
shared drives. Contact the Helpdesk (361-570-4399) if you need
assistance with the share name.
Outlook Email Configuration
You are now ready to configure
Outlook.
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Click on the outlook icon.
The following screen will appear.
2. Click next to bring up the next
screen.
Select Corporate or Workgroup
shown below, then the Next button.
3. Be sure the “Use the following
information services” radio button is selected. Check the
Microsoft Exchange Server box. Then click the next button.
4. Enter mail1.uhv.edu into the
Microsoft Exchange server window. Then enter your username as you
would on campus (last name - first initial) in the Mailbox window.
Then click the Next button.
5. Be sure to select the No radio
button in the following screen. Do NOT select the Yes button.
6. Click the Next button the get
the following screen.
7. Click Finish. If it goes
straight to the Enter Password screen, enter your username
(without “@uhv.edu”), domain (UHV) and your password.
When starting the Outlook program,
you may receive a message screen that says, “Outlook is not
currently your default program for E-mail, Calendar and Contactsou
may leave the o make it the default program?"ur default program
for E. Would you like to make it the default program?”
Click the “Yes” button.
Uncheck the “Always perform this
check when starting Microsoft Outlook” box if you no longer wish
to receive that message screen.
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