Shared Mailboxes - Best way to use on mobiles/tablets

[Markus Turba]

Is there any official way to use shared mailboxes on mobile devices like iPhone/iPad? I have a group of people here who need to check incoming emails to a shared mailbox and they want to do that whole being on the road and have no access to their full blown up desktop version of Outlook. I known I could direct them to OWA, but that's not fun on iPhone and they are really used to just one app for their emails.

[#2]

IIRC you can add it in the iPhone mail app.

I don't have an iPhone in front of me, but I think these are the steps:

Go to Settings. Click on Mail, contacts & calendars. Click on Add account.

Choose "other" as the type of the account.

On the next page you'll:
Enter Name.
Enter the email address of the shared inbox. (i.e. sharedmailbox@yourcompany.net or something)
Enter the your personal password.
Enter a description.

When you're done you click next. On the following page you select IMAP.

Incoming mail server:
Host name: outlook.office365.com
Username: Your personal email, followed by "/nameofthesharedmailboxaccount" For example: markus.turba@yourcompany.net/sharedmailbox
Password: Your personal email password.

Outgoing mail server:

Host name: smtp.outlook365.com

User name: Your personal email address.

Password: Your personal email password.

I'm not 100% sure about this as I don't have an iphone available to try this on. But I hope it helps. :)

/Elias

[#3]

Hello, is this still the only option if the user doesn't know the password to the shared mailbox? I can add it as I would any mailbox when I know the password to the shared mailbox but that isn't really a shared mailbox then. I'm not able to get the instructions above to work when I don't know the mailbox password.