Cognizant has moved to a new platform Airwatch, which is the new solution for email access in your Android/Ios device. Step 1: Raise a GSD and get required permission for your id to access mail through phone.
This guide is about accessing Cognizant email from your personal laptop’s Outlook! Yes you do not need any special VPN privileges to configure your personal outlook for accessing Cognizant email. All you need is access to Cognizant OWA (Web Access to email). By default, all permanent employees of Cognizant have web access enabled as a default option except for the contractors.
This guide provides you with step by step instructions about configuring your outlook.
Step 1:
From the Control Panel, Select Mail. This will bring a dialog box as shown below:
Click on the ‘E-Mail Accounts’ button which will take you to the Account Settings screen.
- Apr 24, 2013 This guide is about accessing Cognizant email from your personal laptop's Outlook! Yes you do not need any special VPN privileges to configure your personal outlook for accessing Cognizant email. All you need is access to Cognizant OWA (Web Access to email). By default, all permanent employees of Cognizant have web access enabled as a.
- I was trying to configure Cognizant mail in Android. It’s possible but it’s not safe. Microsoft came with an outlook app only for their microsoft mail accounts but this app could be modified and used for any Microsoft exchange servers. I will recommend to wait till microsoft releases a paid office package with outlook on 2016 April.
Step 2:
In the Account Settings dialog that is displayed, select the ‘E-mail’ tab if it is not selected by default. Click on the ‘New’ button. This will take you to the new email account wizard.
Step 3:
Cognizant Outlook 365 Log In
In the ‘choose service’ dialog box, Choose ‘Email Account’ and click Next.
Step 4:
In the Add Account dialog box, select ‘Manual setup or additional server types’ and Click Next.
Step 5:
in the choose service dialog box, select ‘Microsoft Exchange Server or Compatible device’ and click Next.
Step 6:
In the server settings field, enter the following: ‘ctsinchnvcasa.cts.com’. In the username field enter ‘ctsuserid’ (e.g. cts112233).
Do not click on’ check name’ button now! You will need to make additional configurations before that.
Click on ‘More Settings’ button.
Step 7:
In the General Tab, please provide any name for this Exchange account. For e.g. ‘CTS Mail Account’
Step 8:
In the Advanced tab, select both the options under ‘Cached Exchange Mode settings’
Select ‘Use Cached Exchange mode’ check-box
Also select ‘Download Shared Folders’ check-box
Step 9:
Cts Outlook 365 Mail
Navigate to the Security Tab.
Ensure that ‘Always prompt for logon credentials’ is selected.
Select ‘Password Authentication (NTLM)’ from the Logon Network Security drop down.
Cognizant Mail Outlook Sign In
Step 10:
Enable ‘ Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP’ and click on the Exchange Proxy Settings button.
Step 11:
This is the major step. Make all configurations exactly as done in the below screenshot.
Set the URL field to: mail.cognizant.com
Set the text box next to ‘connect to proxy servers having this principal name in their certificate:’ enter the following: msstd:*.cognizant.com
Enable all check marks and Select ‘Basic Authentication’ in the proxy authentication settings.
Cognizant Outlook 365 Email Login
Now Click OK and close all the dialog boxes and open your outlook.
Provide your Cognizant Credentials when requested and there you have, Access to Cognizant email right from your personal laptop’s outlook!
For any queries / suggestions / comments
Cognizant Outlook 365
Please write to: techmonk@outlook.com