Comments on: Manually Configure Outlook for Exchange Online

By: sameer

sameer — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:23:02 +0000

Awesome – thanks! This will help me use GAMME to migrate away from Microsoft Online/ BPOS to Google!

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[...] Manually Configure Outlook for Exchange Online NOTE: These steps apply to BPOS. If you are looking for steps to Office 365, please refer to our Office 365 steps for manual Outlook profile creation. I could not find any documentation anywhere on how to configure Outlook with Exchange Online. The only way that I discovered was to install the Microsoft Online Services Sign In Application which configured your MAPI profile for you automatically which I found several bugs in that didn’t work for me. More » [...]

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[...] previously blogged about how to manually configure Outlook for BPOS. Now that BPOS has been replaced by Office 365, we thought we’ve update the information to [...]

By: Terence

Terence — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:20:13 +0000

Thank you – it worked well. Information very useful but difficult to actually find.

By: proxyma - other worlds

proxyma - other worlds — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:35:15 +0000

This is probably the most insightful post I have every read. If everyone followed this, there would be half as less disappointments.

By: Vince K.

Vince K. — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:56:46 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I couldn’t find the info ANYWHERE in the Exchange Online help or Admin console. This worked perfectly in Outlook 2010 32-bit.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:37:35 +0000

Great!! thanks a lot!!!!

By: Nestor Urquiza

Nestor Urquiza — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:52:07 +0000

This was really useful. Straight to the point!

One little note, this worked for me using Outlook 2003 SP3

Thanks!
-Nestor

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:39:40 +0000

You’re the best!! Thanks!

By: The frog

The frog — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:22:08 +0000

Thank you, it’s perfect!

By: Aarron

Aarron — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:05:50 +0000

Didn’t work. Windows 7 doe snot come with Windows Mail, so the process does not work from step 3 onwards… I still have problems!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:11:47 +0000

YES! The directions from Anonymous here in the comments totally worked, even for Outlook 2003 on an XP box. Sweeeeeet. I finally have OWA and Google Calendar synced up after using those directions to link up Outlook to OWA, then use Google Sync to Outlook. Yippeeeee!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:39:21 +0000

Great Job! You saved me from a ton of frustration.Thanks

By: Conor Pendergrast

Conor Pendergrast — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:54:51 +0000

It worked! Finally! It worked! Using the steps from Anonymous there, I set up a *Profile* first, then set up a mail account. Damn, how did I not see that that was the problem. Thanks, this is fantastic!

By: Geeman Yip

Geeman Yip — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:30:34 +0000

Thank you for your comment.The steps described in the posting are the EXACT steps when creating a profile from scratch which should work. They have been verified with Outlook 2007 on both Windows Vista and Windows 7Some of the steps that you specify are already default settings when creating a profile or are unnessecary.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:13:00 +0000

Hi guys, Thanks for the info, but there are a few steps missing. Ill paste the mail from microsoft "step by step guide". Seems to work now. Had a problem with authentication. See below: 1. Navigate to Start – Control Panel – Mail2. Click Show Profiles then click Add…3. Enter Profile Name (i.e. your email address) and click OK4. Check the box for Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next5. Select Microsoft Exchange and click Next6. Enter your Microsoft Exchange server2. This can be found by logging into Outlook Web Access3. Click Options4. Click About5. Look for "Mailbox server name", this is your Exchange Server7. Check the box for Use Cached Exchange Mode8. Enter your User Name, this is your Microsoft Online Services User Name9. Click More Settings10. A window will appear displaying the message “The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.” And click OK11. Another window will appear, click Cancel12. Click the Connection tab13. Under Outlook Anywhere, check the box for Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP, then click Exchange Proxy Settings14. For Use this URL to connect to my proxy server for Exchange,2. For North America enter red001.mail.microsoftonline.com3. For Europe, enter red002.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com4. For Asia, enter red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com15. Check the box for Connect using SSL only16. Check the box for Only connect to proxy servers that have this principal name in their certificate and enter2. “msstd:*.mail.microsoftonline.com” for North America3. “msstd:*.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com” for Europe4. “msstd:*.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com” for Asia17. Check the box for On fast networks, connect using HTTP first, then connect using TCP/IP18. Check the box for On slow networks, connect using HTTP first, then connect using TCP/IP19. Use NTLM Authentication for Proxy authentication settings20. Click OK all the way out

By: Geeman Yip

Geeman Yip — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:19:41 +0000

Thanks for all your comments. I've updated the steps now with Adams recommendation to locate your mailbox server. The previous server name I had listed must have been decommissioned which was causing the resolution problems.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:35:27 +0000

I found that there are sometimes mailbox discovery issues with some mail servers.Following the above steps, if you still recieve the mailbox could not be found – change the mailbox server to another known server and then do a check name.For some reason this has worked for me everytime there has been an issue (2 in the last day)I suspect there is some issues on the backend as far as mailbox / mailserver discovery goes.Regards,Anthony Moore – IT Excellence Pty Ltd

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:57:19 +0000

If that server address doesn't work for you, I found out you can log into the OWA (mail.microsoftonline.com), click Options, and About and find the exact server name in there.

By: Conor Pendergrast

Conor Pendergrast — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:13:50 +0000

This is odd – I've set up a WinXP (can't use Sign In app on XP) laptop using this method before, but when I try on my own (again, XP) laptop, I get as far as step 13 and it gives me an error of:Outlook cannot log on. Verify you are connected to the network and are using the proper server and mailbox name. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action".I've tried using the Mailbox Server name found in OWA, but can't get it to work. Any ideas?

By: onefst250r

onefst250r — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:18:35 +0000

Thanks!

By: David

David — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:34:34 +0000

Wow, this was very, very helpful. For some reason the Microsoft Online Sign On app was not configuring my profile, and this took care of it. Thank you so much for posting.

By: smaus

smaus — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:41:55 +0000

Omigosh! THANK YOU

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:58:14 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you for these instructions! You are amazing and awesome.