Setting up Outlook for hosted exchange

How to Configure Outlook to Connect Exchange Server

We recommended you to use Outlook 2007 as your mail client to use the whole set of features offered by Exchange Server 2007.
Please select most suitable variant of configuration.

Outlook 2007 Configuration by Autodiscovery

Outlook 2007 supports Autodiscovery feature that requires entering just your mailbox e-mail address and password and get connection to your mailbox automatically configured.

  1. Open Start > Control Panel > Mail. Mail Setup dialog appears.
  2. Click Show Profiles button. Mail dialog appears.
  3. Make sure Prompt for a profile to be used option is selected and click Add button.
  4. Enter Profile Name in the dialog and press OK.
  5. In the Add New E-mail Account wizard fill Your Name and E-mail Address fields.
  6. In the Exchange login prompt enter your mailbox login yourname@youremail.co.uk and password.
  7. Outlook will try to discover your mailbox settings over secure internet connection. You could be prompted to allow Outlook to perform redirection from one site (unsecure) to another (secure). Allow this redirection.

Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 Configuration Script

  1. Request an Outlook Profile Configuration by emailing support@highqualitytechnology.co.uk and save it locally.
  2. Make sure Outlook application is not running.
  3. Run the script you have downloaded by double clicking on it.
  4. Outlook profile will be configured and Outlook will be started.
  5. In the login prompt enter your Exchange mailbox login yourname@youremail.co.uk and password.
  6. Select newly-created outlook profile from Choose profile dialog and enter again your Exchange mailbox login and the password.

Advanced Outlook Configuration

If you do not want to use script to automatically configure Outlook profile, you can download textual file containing settings to connect to your mailbox and import it manually.

  1. Request your Outlook Profile script by emailing support@highqualitytechnology.co.ukand save it locally, e.g. as "C:\OutlookProfile.prf".
  2. Make sure Outlook application is not running.
  3. Open Start > Run and execute the following command:
    outlook.exe /importprf "C:\OutlookProfile.prf"
  4. This will restart Outlook and you will be asked to accept the new profile settings, click Yes.
  5. In the login prompt enter your Exchange mailbox login yourname@youremail.co.uk and password.
  6. Select newly-created outlook profilefrom Choose profile dialog and enter again your Exchange mailbox login and the password.

If you are advanced user and experienced in mail client configuration you can use the following parameters to configure connection to Exchange server:

  • Microsoft Exchange server: EXMBX01
  • E-mail Address: yourname@youremail.co.uk
  • User name:yourname@youremail.co.uk
  • Proxy Server: exchange.njnx.net
  • Proxy Authentication settings: Basic Authentication.
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