Chapter 41. Configuring the Exchange Server Client

Although you can use Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 with other types of mail servers, you derive the greatest benefit when you use Office Outlook 2007 with Microsoft Exchange Server. Added benefits include the Out Of Office Assistant, the ability to recall messages, the ability to delegate functions to an assistant, the use of server-side message rules, and many other collaboration features.

You can connect to Exchange Server using any of several protocols, including Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and even Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This means two things: you can connect to an Exchange Server using e-mail clients other than Outlook 2007 (Microsoft Outlook Express or Eudora, for example), and you can use a service provider other than the Exchange Server client within Outlook 2007 (such as POP3) to connect to the server, assuming that the server is appropriately configured. To get all the benefits afforded by the combination of Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server, however, you must use the Exchange Server service provided with Outlook 2007.

This chapter explains how to add the Exchange Server client to an Outlook 2007 profile and configure its settings.

Note

For detailed information about adding other service providers to an Outlook 2007 profile, see Chapter 3. You’ll find additional information about setting up Internet e-mail accounts in Chapter 7.

Outlook as an Exchange Server Client

The Microsoft Exchange Server service in Outlook 2007 allows you to use Outlook 2007 as a client for Exchange Server. Of all the services supported by Outlook 2007, Exchange Server offers the broadest range of functionality, providing excellent support for collaboration, information sharing, group scheduling, and more.

Note

The remaining chapters in Part 9, cover a broad range of topics to help you use Outlook 2007 effectively as an Exchange Server client.

Setting up an Exchange Server account in Outlook 2007 isn’t difficult, but it does require several steps, as follows:

  1. If you are running Outlook 2007 for the first time, in the Outlook 2007 Startup Wizard, go to the Choose E-Mail Service page. To reach this page if you have run Outlook 2007 previously and your profile already includes a mail account, right-click the Outlook icon on the Start menu, select the profile, and then choose Properties. Click E-Mail Accounts, and then click New on the E-Mail tab in the Account Settings dialog box.

  2. Select the Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP option, and then click Next.

  3. The Auto Account Setup page, shown in Figure 41-1, gives you a place to specify your name, e-mail address, and password. If AutoDiscover is properly configured on the computer running Exchange Server and in your network environment, you can enter your name, e-mail address, and password as it is set on the server, click Next, and have Outlook 2007 determine the settings necessary to connect to your server. However, the following steps assume that you are not able to use AutoDiscover and must configure the account manually.

    Use this page to enter details for your e-mail account.

    Figure 41-1. Use this page to enter details for your e-mail account.

    Note

    AutoDiscover requires that your computer be able to resolve the autodiscover host in your domain. For example, if your computer resides in the tailspintoys.com domain, your computer must be able to resolve autodiscover.tailspintoys.com to the servers on the tailspintoys.com network that are providing AutoDiscover services. For more details on AutoDiscover, see the Exchange Server 2007 documentation.

  4. If you don’t want to use AutoDiscover, choose Manually Configure Server Settings Or Additional Server Types, and then click Next.

  5. Choose Microsoft Exchange, and then click Next.

  6. On the Microsoft Exchange Settings page, shown in Figure 41-2, specify the following information:

    Configure basic Exchange Server settings on the Microsoft Exchange Settings page.

    Figure 41-2. Configure basic Exchange Server settings on the Microsoft Exchange Settings page.

    • Microsoft Exchange Server. Specify the NetBIOS or Domain Name Service (DNS) name of the computer running Exchange Server or its IP address. You don’t have to include a double backslash (\) before the server name.

    • Use Cached Exchange Mode. Select this check box to have Outlook 2007 create a locally cached copy of your entire Exchange Server mailbox on your local computer. Outlook 2007 creates an offline folder store (.ost) file in which to store the mailbox and works from that cached copy, handling synchronization issues automatically.

    • User Name. Specify the name of your mailbox on the server. You can specify your logon account name or mailbox name. For example, you might use chill or Chris Hill.

    • Check Name. After you enter your logon or mailbox name, click Check Name to check the specified account information against the information on the server. If you specify your logon name, clicking Check Name automatically changes the user name to your mailbox name. Outlook 2007 indicates a successful check by underlining the user name. If you are connecting to the server using remote procedure call (RPC) over HTTP, do not click Check Name—you must configure the connection first because Outlook 2007 must be able to communicate with the server to check your name.

  7. Click More Settings to open the Microsoft Exchange dialog box, shown in Figure 41-3.

    Use the Microsoft Exchange dialog box to configure additional options.

    Figure 41-3. Use the Microsoft Exchange dialog box to configure additional options.

  8. Use the information in the following sections to configure additional settings if needed, and then click OK to close the Microsoft Exchange dialog box. Click Next, and then click Finish.

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