On May 4, 5:38 pm, Hal <H...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have upgraded to Vista and Office 2007.
>
> The problem I have run into is I cannot get connected toExchange. The error
> I get is: " Outlook cannot logon...Theconnectionto MSExchangeisunavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action."
>
> Everything works fine on Outlook 2007 on my second system running XP. The
> steps I have done to fix this are:
>
> 1. Wiped Vista and re-installed along with XP and Office 2007 again. I was
> able to set up my profile there without a problem. Once this was successful,
> I upgraded to Vista in hopes that Outlook would continue to work - it did not.
> 2. Made sure I could get toExchangeby pinging and nslookup queries. These
> were successful.
> 3. Put in a static Default Gateway. (MyExchangeserver is on a different
> subnet than our user subnet).
> 4. Put in a static route via Route /add.
> 5. Put an entry for the mail server in the hosts file.
> 6. Turned off the Vista firewall.
>
> All this was to no avail!
>
> Anybody run into the issue and able to find a solution?
I have a similar issue with Outlook 2007, XP SP2, and Exchange 2003:
The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be
online or connected to complete this action.
Seems to be a problem for a lot of folks, but no answers.
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