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Post date: Feb 03, 2014 4:12:0 PM
Manually configure Outlook to connect to Office 365
Manually configure Outlook to connect to Office 365
Steps
Steps
Microsoft changed the login to Exchange and the 'About' button is gone. So you can't retrieve your logon server.
I figured out how Microsoft does it today (29-03-2013) and configured my Outlook 2010 manually. I suspect it also works for Outlook 2013 but I'll try that later.
Determine your mailbox server name and proxy server URL
Determine your mailbox server name and proxy server URL
For this you need to go to https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ and go to the Office 365 tab. Then select 'Outlook anywhere (RPC over HTTP) in the Microsoft Office Outlook Connectivity Tests.
Perform connectivity test
Perform connectivity test
Fill in your credentials and perform the connectivity test.
Its also a check if the autodiscover dns records are set correct.
retrieve your mailbox server and proxy server
retrieve your mailbox server and proxy server
If the connectivity test has a positive result you can find your mailbox server and proxy server on the following lines.
you use the RPC proxy server in the advanced connection settings of Outlook
and the other server with the long number account name as the mailbox server.
you can follow the procedure from Daniel Yu as of step 2 to create your Outlook profile.
good luck!
update 20-06-2013
update 20-06-2013
The RPC proxy is now named: outlook.office365.com
So you only need to find your Exchange Information store.
In your Outlook client account settings you fill in the Microsoft Exchange Proxy Settings in the Connection tab as in the picture.
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