Prolems with Exchange Server

[JohnM]

We have Outlook 2003 on client computers connected to
Small Business Server 2003. We originally had the email
configured on Outlook for our ISP's POP server. Now,
however, on one computer it tries to connect to Exchange
Server. It cannot log on to Exchange Server, and it
cannot open the default mail files, so Outlook shuts down.

So we can't get into Outlook on that machine. We can
configure email accounts in Control Panel/users/email
settings, but all attempts to get back to the POP email
configuration don't change the behavior of not being able
to enter Outlook because it cannot log on to Exchange
Server. When we were going to remove the Exchange email
account, the program told us that we would lose our
data. We were concerned that all of our contacts and
calendar information would be gone.

We originally wanted to set up Exchange Server with
Outlook, but now our immediate goal is to disconnect
Outlook from Exchange Server so we can at least get email
directly from the POP configuration.

How do we stop Outlook from trying to find Exchange
Server?

Thanks,
John

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

In the mail applet, open the profile and choose More settings. Change
the authentication settings on the security tab to Password Auth. (NTLM)
and you should be able to connect to exchange.
As for losing data - as long as you aren't using a pst, you won't lose
anything - and even if you are, you need to delete the pst to lost data.


Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)




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