SBS 2003

Re: Outlook access using RPC HTTP

David Overton — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:44:50 GMT

Auto is the default setting, so something/one has changed this settings.

ttfn

David

Re: Outlook access using RPC HTTP

Joe — Wed, 24 May 2006 11:10:10 GMT

On every install we have configured 'Automatically detect connection state' is the default. We have setup hundreds of clients using outlook rpc http and have never had to change the connection state.

I'm not an authority but I would be very surprised if it wasn't the default.

Have you ever had a dial-up that could have changed this? Not sure why the 'Connect with the network' option hasn't worked, but I've never tested it.

Re: Outlook access using RPC HTTP

abbeydale — Mon, 22 May 2006 22:21:00 GMT

Finally found it

My Outlook connection settings were set to "Manually control connection state" and default connection state was "connect with the network". Changing it to "Automatically detect connection state" cured it.

I would have thought "connect with the network" would have worked though.
I have never changed these settings before so I assume "Automatically detect connection state" is not the default. Can someone confirm this for me please?

Re: Outlook access using RPC HTTP

abbeydale — Mon, 22 May 2006 21:04:11 GMT

All ticked. :-(

Re: Outlook access using RPC HTTP

Paulie — Mon, 22 May 2006 19:47:26 GMT

I realise this might be an obvious suggestion, but have you made sure the

"Outlook via the internet"

Option is ticked in the Configure E-mail and Internet Connection Wizard?

Outlook access using RPC HTTP

abbeydale — Mon, 22 May 2006 17:06:57 GMT

SBS2003 with all latest SP's etc.

Client with Outlook 2003 all latest SP's etc. Client has never been on the domain and has the servers certificate installed.

Whenever the client tries to connect to the exchange server I get the error message "The connection to the Microsoft exchange server is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action".

I can access the server and OWA using remote connection fine. As far as I know all the necessary ports are open. 443 444 etc so I don't think it is a firewall issue. Someone else thinks there *may* be a switch that needs to be turned on in Exchange but I hav'nt seen this written anywhere.

Everything works fine except for connecting Outlook via RPC HTTP.

Any clues as to what may be missing?

Cheers
A