Monday, February 25, 2008

Configuring the Outlook 2003 Client to use RPC over HTTP

Perform the following steps to configure the Outlook 2003 profile:

1. Click Start and then right click on the Outlook 2003 icon in the menu. Click on the Properties command.

2- Click at Show Profiles .

3- Select your Profile and click at Properties .

4- Click on E-mail Accounts..

5- Select the View or change existing e-mail accounts option in the This wizard will allow you to change the e-mail accounts the direction that Outlook uses page. Click Next.



6- Select Microsoft Exchange Server and click on Change .. button .

7- On The Exchange Server Settings page, click the More Settings.. button.

8- You can change how Outlook detects the connection state on the General tab of the Microsoft Exchange Server dialog box. Do not make any changes here unless you have an explicit reason to do so.

9- Click on the Connection tab. Select the Connect using Internet Explorer’s or 3rd party dialer option. Put a checkmark in the Connect to my Exchange mailbox using HTTP, then click the Exchange Proxy Settings button.

10- Type "The OWA address " in the Use this URL to connect to my proxy server for Exchange text box.

And Put a checkmark in the Mutually authenticate the session when connecting with SSL check box .then type msstd:"OWA address".

put a checkmark on both on fast and on slow networks, using HTTP first, then connect using TCP/IP.

and In the Use this authentication when connecting to my proxy server for Exchange drop down box, select the Basic Authentication option.

11- Click OK on the Exchange Proxy Settings dialog box.

12- Click Next on the Exchange Server Settings. And Finish.

13- close the proberties of the e-mail account and select Apply and ok.

Link

You may find these Links of interest to you :

Introduction to Microsoft Exchange 2003 RPC over HTTPS.

Thanks

Emad Sabar